Fairlawne Handicap Chase

Fairlawne Handicap Chase
2016
Village Vic Tenor Nivernais Top Gamble

The Fairlawne Handicap Chase, currently run under the sponsored title of the BetBright Best For Festival Betting Handicap Chase, is a Grade 3 National Hunt steeplechase in Great Britain which is open to horses aged five years or older. It is run at Cheltenham over a distance of 2 miles and 5 furlongs (4,225 metres). It is a handicap race, and is scheduled to take place each year on New Year's Day.

The race was first run in 1990 as the Cleeve Hill Handicap Chase and was awarded Grade 3 status in 2009.

From 2014 the race became officially known as the Fairlawne Chase, a name previousy associated with a three mile conditions chase run at Windsor until 1997.

Winners since 1990

Year Winner Age Weight Jockey Trainer
1990 Paddyboro 12 11-13 Richard Rowe Josh Gifford
1991 New Halen [1] 9 9-12 Eamon Tierney Paul James
1992 Nodform [1] 7 10-12 Declan Murphy Josh Gifford
no race 1993
1994 Southern Minstrel 11 10-06 Adrian Maguire Peter Cheesbrough
no race 1995
no race 1996
no race 1997
1998 Pete The Parson 9 10-02 Mick Fitzgerald Jim Old
1999 Eirespray 8 10-07 Seamus Durack Sue Smith
2000 The Outback Way 10 11-10 Norman Williamson Venetia Williams
no race 2001
no race 2002
2003 Ballinclay King 9 10-11 Davy Russell Ferdy Murphy
2004 Whereareyounow 7 10-01 Carl Llewellyn Nigel Twiston-Davies
2005 Le Duc 6 10-08 Ruby Walsh Paul Nicholls
2006 Fondmort 10 11-12 Mick Fitzgerald Nicky Henderson
2007 Too Forward 11 11-04 Timmy Murphy Carl Llewellyn
2008 Vodka Bleu 9 10-13 Timmy Murphy David Pipe
2009 Stan 9 11-00 Aidan Coleman Venetia Williams
2010 Can't Buy Time 8 11-00 Tony McCoy Jonjo O'Neill
2011 Tartak 8 11-08 Paddy Brennan Tom George
2012 Calgary Bay 9 10-04 Dominic Elsworth Henrietta Knight
no race 2013 [2]
2014 Double Ross 8 11-05 Sam Twiston-Davies Nigel Twiston-Davies
2015 Splash Of Ginge 7 11-02 Jamie Bargary Nigel Twiston-Davies
2016 Village Vic 9 10-10 Richard Johnson Philip Hobbs

1 The 1991 and 1992 runnings took place on New Year's Eve of the preceding year.
2 The 2013 running was abandoned due to a waterlogged course.

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