Challow Novices' Hurdle Tips & Odds
The Challow Novices' Hurdle is a race for novices over 2m4f118y at Newbury and is a Grade 1 contest that takes place in late December or early January each season. Read More
The race has been won by some elite animals in the past before heading on to bigger and better things and there are ten hurdles in total to be jumped.
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Newbury 15:00
Coral Challow Novices' Hurdle (Grade 1) (GBB Race)
- 4yo+, 13 Runners
- Jumps,Turf , 2m 4f 118y , GOOD TO SOFT, Soft in places (GoingStick: Chase 4.0, Hurdle 4.2)
- Winner £56,950, 2nd £21,370, 3rd £10,700, 4th £5,330, 5th £2,680, 6th £1,340
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• 1 (5) = Horse number with the draw number in brackets.
• Number alongside the horse name is the days since the horse last ran.
• Numbers/letters under the jockey silk is the horse form with the most recent figure on the right. Numbers = finishing position (0 = finished outside the top 10), P = pulled up, F = fell, U = Unseated, B = brought down, R = refused, C = carried out, D = disqualified, HR = hit rails, L = left at start, O = ran out, S = slipped up, V = void race. A dash between figures indicates a year between the runs and a slash indicates a new season.
• % alongside jockey/trainer names = strike rate in last 30 days.
• Key to pointers: C = Course winner, D = Distance winner, CD = Course & Distance winner, BF = Beaten Favourite last time out, WS = Has had wind surgery since last run, LT = Longest Travellers, b = Wearing blinkers, b1 = Wearing blinkers for the first time, h = Wearing a hood, h1 = Wearing a hood for the first time, t = Wearing a tongue strap, t1 = Wearing a tongue strap for the first time, v = Wearing a visor, v1 = Wearing a visor for the first time, p = Wearing cheek pieces. OR = Official Rating. RPR = Racing Post Rating. Topspeed is a figure calculated using race times and the going to show how fast the horse can run.
Challow Novices' Hurdle Tips
You can check out our Challow Novices' Hurdle tips here nearer the off...
What is the Challow Novices' Hurdle?
The Challow Novice Hurdle is a Grade One contest run over a trip of two miles and four furlongs at Newbury racecourse at the end of December or the start of January.
The Challow is one of the key races of the season for the best novice hurdlers over the intermediate trip with the horses in this race often destined for bigger and better things.
There are ten hurdles to be jumped in the Challow with the race one of the feature contests on a terrific card at the Berkshire venue and we can no doubt expect some classy animals to take their chance this season.
What happened in the 2024 Challow Novices' Hurdle?
THE NEW LION was a seriously impressive winner of the 2024 race, battering his rivals and always looking in second gear. He would prove himself the star novice hurdler in Britain by beating the two big Irish challengers in the Turners at Cheltenham 2025.
The history of the Challow Novices Hurdle
First run in 1971, the Challow was initially run as a juvenile hurdle before being opened up to older horses during the 1981/82 season.
The race generally tends to be run at the end of December but is on occasion run on the first weekend of the following January which can mean that two editions of the race can be run in the same calendar year.
The race is a traditional breeding ground for the starts of the future with the horses who perform well at Newbury often heading to the Cheltenham Festival for the Turners Novices' Hurdle of the Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle.
Who is the most iconic winner of the Challow Novices' Hurdle?
The Challow has proven to be an increasingly important race over the past decade or so with horses like Bindaree, Taquin du Seuil and Diamond Harry all claiming the victory. There is no doubt which horses is the best though when it comes to the roll of honour with the legendary Denman claiming the victory in 2006. "The Tank" would go on to win the Ladbrokes Trophy twice off top weight, the Brown Advisory Novices' Chase and the Cheltenham Gold Cup but it was in the Challow where we first saw just how good the Paul Nicholls trained horse would become.
