Melling Chase Tips & Odds

The Melling Chase will take place on Friday 12th April, 2024.

Watch the race live on ITV1 and Racing TV which also offer options to stream the race via their streaming services. 

Alternatively, most bookmakers offer a free live horse racing stream allowing you to watch the race after you've placed a bet.

Picking the most iconic winner of the Melling is a tough ask, considering how many illustrious names have won it since it’s conception.

The great Sprinter Sacre only won this race once, back in 2013, but he did so at the peak of his powers - during which he was considered to be one of the greatest chasers that the sport has ever seen for Nicky Henderson - justifying 3/1-on favouritism to win easily by four and a half lengths. 

There is a designated path to the Melling Chase, and runners regularly head here having run in either the Queen Mother Champion Chase or the Ryanair Chase at the Cheltenham Festival. Earlier in the season, other races to note include the Clarence House Chase and the Ascot Chase.

The winning most jockey in the history of the Melling Chase is Barry Geraghty, who has ridden the Melling winner four times during his career with Moscow Flyer (2004, 2005), Finian's Rainbow (2012) and Sprinter Sacre (2013) all crossing the line in front.

Nicky Henderson and Paul Nicholls have three wins each in the Melling and both will have designs on adding to that tally in the next few years. Nicholls has tasted success in Liverpool with Fadalko (2001), Master Minded (2011) and Politologue (2018), while Henderson’s wins have come courtesy of Remittance Man (1992), Finian’s Rainbow (2012) and Sprinter Sacre (2013).