Sefton Novices' Hurdle Tips & Odds

The Sefton Novices' Hurdle 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.

There have been some legendary winners of the Sefton down the years with the brilliant Barton Bank perhaps the best of them in the early years with the David Nicholson trained horse claiming the win in good style in 1992.

More recently it is Thistlecrack who is the stand out name on the honours list with the future Stayers' Hurdle and King George winner first coming to the attention of the sport with his emphatic Sefton win back in 2015. It was an amazing performance from an un-fancied horse at the time and marked Thistlecrack as a horse with immense potential for Colin Tizzard.

It is important to take a closer look at the form before having a bet and that certainly applies to the Sefton Novices' Hurdle which does come at the end of a long season full of ups and downs.

The obvious form race to look at before this one is the Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival with a number of those runners likely to take their chance in the Sefton as well each season.

AP McCoy and Barry Geraghty were long-time rivals and it is those two at the top of the Sefton record books with three wins each in the race. McCoy tasted Sefton victories on Unsinkable Boxer (1998), Black Jack Ketchum (2006) and At Fishers Cross (2013), while Geraghty won on Sackville (2000), Iris's Gift (2003), and Beat That (2014).

There is no surprise to see Nicky Henderson as the record holder for the most wins in the Sefton with an excellent four wins to his name in the race at the time of writing. The Seven Barrows handler has won the race with Rustle (1988), Beat That (2014), Santini (2018), and Champ (2019).