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Challow Novices’ Hurdle
The Challow Novices’ Hurdle is one of the premier hurdles events for novices in the United Kingdom. This Grade 1 hurdles race is run in December/January at Newbury Racecourse.
The Challow Novices’ Hurdle is open to 4-year-old novice hurdlers. The Challow Novices’ Hurdle covers a distance of 2 miles 5 furlongs and requires entries to clear 10 hurdles.
Challow Novices’ Hurdle Betting Tips
- The Challow Novices’ Hurdle is typically won by national hunt racehorses between the ages of 5 and 7. Wins by 4-year-olds are exceptionally rare in this race, and a racehorse over the age of 7 has not taken the event in the past two decades.
- Punters who look to the betting markets for direction when betting on a race could do worse than the Challow Novices’ Hurdle. Short odds favourites do very well in the race, and antepost favourites have scored a success rate of around 60% in recent years, one of the highest success percentages in national hunt racing.
- When the antepost favourite fails to win the Challow Novices’ Hurdle another short-priced runner usually comes through, with winners rarely priced above 3/1.
- These trends suggest that straightforward bets on the favourite winning the Challow Novices’ Hurdle are the best way to approach this race. Punters looking for more security can place safer bets by backing the favourite in the place betting markets for lower but more secure returns.
- Alternatively laying racehorses other than the favourite can pay dividends, as these are often priced low enough to generate good returns in the lay betting markets.
Challow Novices’ Hurdle History
During its history the Challow Novices’ Hurdle has tended to attract racehorses that are being groomed for appearances in some of the most important national hunt races. As a result a handful of national hunt racing’s superstars can be found on the Challow Novices’ Hurdle winners lists.
Notable winners of the Challow Novices’ Hurdle include Cheltenham Gold Cup winner, Denman, and Cheltenham Festival William Hill Trophy winner, Wichita Lineman. During its history the Challow Novices’ Hurdle has been abandoned a number of times, and was suspended between 1995 and 1998.
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