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The event was originally known as the Broadway Novices' Chase, and this became the race's registered title in 2021, but since the mid-1960s it has been run under various sponsored titles. From 1964 to 1973 it was sponsored by the Tote , and it was called the Totalisator Champion Novices' Chase.
The race is for novice chasers, and it is scheduled to take place each year in January. The race was first run in 1979 and was originally held at Ascot , contested over a distance of 2 miles. It was switched to alternative venues for a three-year period beginning in 2005, and it returned to Ascot with a distance of 2 miles and 1 furlong in 2008.
This forms the basis of the current Pattern, which has since been subject to further changes in status and number of races, most recently for the 2023–24 season. [2] Major changes took place in the 2022–23 season when the Grade 3 handicaps were renamed Premier Handicaps and Listed handicaps were removed from the pattern, either becoming ...
During the early part of its history it was held at various venues, including its present home in 1904 and 1905. It was transferred more permanently to Cheltenham in 1911, when it became part of the new two-day National Hunt Meeting. Until the 1930s it was the second most important jumps race in the calendar after the Grand National.
The race was for novice chasers, and it was scheduled to take place each year in late November or early December. The race was first run in 1990 and was originally held at Worcester, where it was contested over distances of up to 2 miles and 7½ furlongs and run as the Worcester Novices' Chase. It was transferred to Newbury and extended to its ...
Noble Yeats won the 2022 Grand National as a novice. A modern development has seen a concession whereby horses that record their first win in a given sphere in March or April may contest novice events up to 31 October of that year. [3] This period was extended to 30 November from the 2022–23 season in British National Hunt racing. [4]
The race was for novice chasers, but was cut from the race calendar ahead of the 2023/24 National Hunt season. The event was formerly contested over 2 miles, and for a period it was known by various sponsored titles. It was renamed in 1988, and it was extended to 2 miles 4 furlongs and given Grade 1 status in 1991.
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