Queen Mother Chase

Grade One Chase over 2 miles of the Old Course. 15.15 Wednesday March 17 2010. Speed jumping at its best. One mistake could cost a horse the race.

Champion Chase - Key Stats

All of the last ten winners had ran no more than four times that season

All of the last ten winners had won at least one race in that season

All of the last ten winners had won over at least 2m 1.5f

Nine of the last ten winners returned an SP of no bigger than 5/1

Only one of the last ten winners was older than nine years old

Eight of the last ten winners had previously competed at the festival (and 19 of the last 25 winners had previously been at least placed at the Festival)

Queen Mother Chase - Analysis

As with so many races at the Festival, the last of our trends highlights the need for previous form at the course and, in this case, preferably form at the Festival itself.

The fact that nine of the last ten winners have returned an SP of 5/1 or shorter also indicates that this race has been a decent race for punters with only the 16/1 win of Newmill in 2006 a relative shock.

Champion Chase tips

Master Minded finally put to bed the stat that recent Champion Chase winners struggled to retain their title and he became the first to double up since Viking Flagship in 1995.

Even so the double champion was not as authoritative as he was the year before and even given Paul Nicholls' excuses about not having the horse quite right it might be worth trying to find something to oppose Master Minded with for 2010.

Kalahari King was mightily impressive when winning a big handicap at Doncaster under top weight and his near miss in last year's Arkle gives him top-class course form.

Trainer Ferdy Murphy as always been certain of Kalahari Kings star quality and he could be the one to stop Master Minded becoming only the second horse to win three Queen Mother Champion Chases.

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Champion Chase Odds 2010

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