Noel Novices' Chase

Betfred Novices' Chase
2017
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The Noel Novices' Chase is a Grade 2 National Hunt steeplechase in Britain. It is run at Ascot over a distance of about 2 miles and 5 furlongs (2 miles 5 furlongs and 8 yards, or 4,231 metres), and during its running there are 17 fences to be jumped. The race is scheduled to take place each year in December.

The race was known as the Peter Cox Novices' Chase until 1989. Prior to 2015 it was run over 2 miles and 3 furlongs.

Recent Winners

  • Amateur jockeys indicated by "Mr".
Year
Winner
Age
Jockey
Trainer
1987 Bonanza Boy 6 Peter Hobbs Philip Hobbs
1988 Larchwood 7 Kevin Mooney Simon Christian
1989 The Proclamation 6 Richard Dunwoody Nicky Henderson
1990 Remittance Man 6 Richard Dunwoody Nicky Henderson
no race 1991 [1]
1992 Retail Runner 7 Declan Murphy Josh Gifford
1993 Easy Buck 6 Chris Maude Nick Gaselee
1994 Book of Music I 6 Norman Williamson Kim Bailey
1995 Senor El Betrutti 6 Graham Bradley Susan Nock
1996 Simply Dashing 5 Richard Dunwoody Mick Easterby
1997 Chief's Song 7 Richard Dunwoody Simon Dow
1998 Kurakka 5 Richard Dunwoody Josh Gifford
1999 Toto Toscato 5 Richard Johnson Alan King
2000 Galant Moss 6 Tony McCoy Martin Pipe
2001 Seebald 6 Tony McCoy Martin Pipe
2002 Tarxien 8 Tony McCoy Martin Pipe
2003 Supreme Prince 8 Paul Flynn Philip Hobbs
2004 See You Sometime[2] 9 Andrew Thornton Seamus Mullins
2005 The Listener[2] 6 Andrew Thornton Robert Alner
2006 Briareus 6 Mark Bradburne Andrew Balding
2007 Hobbs Hill 8 Tony McCoy Charlie Egerton
2008 Deep Purple 7 Paul Moloney Evan Williams
no race 2009 [3]
no race 2010 [4]

2011 Zaynar 6 James Reveley Nick Williams
2012 Simonsig 6 Barry Geraghty Nicky Henderson
2013 Fox Appeal 6 Aidan Coleman Emma Lavelle
2014 Ptit Zig 5 Sam Twiston-Davies Paul Nicholls
2015 Le Mercurey 5 Sam Twiston-Davies Paul Nicholls
2016 Politologue 5 Sam Twiston-Davies Paul Nicholls
2017 Benetar 5 Jamie Moore Gary Moore

1 The race was abandoned in 1991 due to frost.
2 The 2004 and 2005 runnings took place at Windsor while Ascot was closed for redevelopment.
3 The 2009 race was abandoned because of snow.
4 The 2010 race was abandoned because of frost.

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