Champion Bumper Form

Champion Bumper form and trends tips.

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Champion Bumper Form - Key Races

No one race sticks out a key form race for the Champion Bumper but good form from either Leopardstown, Naas or previously at Cheltenham should be respected.

Champion Bumper Result 2009

1 Dunguib 9/2 Trained by Philip Fenton Ridden by Mr B T O'Connell
2 Some Present 25/1
3 Rite Of Passage 5/2F

Champion Bumper Result 2008

1 Cousin Vinny 12/1 Trained by W P Mullins Ridden by Mr P W Mullins
2 Corskeagh Royale 7/1
3 Zaarito 3/1F

Champion Bumper Result 2007

1 Cork All Star 11/2 Trained by Mrs J Harrington Ridden by B Geraghty
2 Sophocles 40/1
3 Aranleigh 8/1

Champion Bumper Form Trends

All of the last ten winners had won a bumper with at least fourteen runners

This is a key trend as it showns that your selection can cope with a big field. This can be a hard race with lots of jostling for position and if your choice finds this sort of manoeuvering a shock then your chance of victory will be gone.

Eight of the last ten winners were trained in Ireland (and fourteen of all the seventeen winners of this race!)

Irish horses are just geared to run in bumpers almost without question whereas NHF races are an acquired taste. Consequently its not hard to see why the balance of power is 14-3 to Ireland since this race was introduced to the Festival. If you do fancy an English horse make sure your reasons are rock solid!

Champion Bumper Tips

The fact that Willie Mullins has trained six winners of this race tends to mean that some people become a little lazy when making their selections here and tend to focus on wherever the money goes on the Mullins runners.
This was a profitable tactic in the late nineties when Mullins had just one runner in the race and recorded three consecutive winners but he saddled EIGHT of the runners in 2009 leaving his supporters scratching their heads.
With eight other winners trained in Ireland NOT by Mullins better value could be found with the other Irish runners.

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