2025 Plate Handicap Chase Handicap Chase Tips, Odds and News
Following the Stayers' Hurdle on day three at the Cheltenham Festival is the Festival Plate Handicap Chase. This two-and-a-half-mile handicap chase was created back in 1951, and has been won by many great chasers during its 60-year history.
This race was known as the Brown Advisory Plate for a number of years. In 2021, Brown Advisory moved their sponsorship to the Grade One Novices' Chase on day two, with Paddy Power taking over sponsorship of the Plate.
Our guide to the Plate Handicap Chase will be published when the entries and weights have been announced.
Plate Handicap Chase Handicap Chase Result
Position
Name
SP
1st
Jagwar
3/1f
2nd
Thecompanysergeant
4/1
3rd
Masaccio
11/1
4th
Mars Harper
100/1
5th
Jordans
9/1
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Time
Thursday Races
Status
Distance
13:20
Mares Novices' Hurdle
Grade Two
2m 1f
14:00
Jack Richards Novices' Handicap Chase
Grade Two Handicap
2m 4f
14:40
Pertemps Final
Listed Handicap
3m
15:20
Ryanair Chase
Grade One
2m 4f
16:00
Stayers' Hurdle
Grade One
3m
16:40
Paddy Power Plate
Grade Three Handicap
2m 4f
17:20
Kim Muir Challenge Cup
Class Two Handicap
3m 2f
Plate Handicap Chase History
This two-and-a-half mile handicap chase is one of the most prestigious Handicap races during the Cheltenham Festival.
First run back at the 1951 meeting, the race was initially named in memory of the 2nd Baron Mildmay of Flete, who rode three winners at the Cheltenham Festival as an amateur.
The Mildmay of Flete Challenge Cup has had many different sponsors down the years, including the Racing Post and the Byrne Group. In 2015, Brown Advisory and Merriebelle Stable took over sponsorship.
Fred Winter rode the first winner of the Paddy Power Plate in 1951. Winter went on to ride the winner twice more during his career, and remains the winning-most jockey with his tally of two.
Three trainers have saddled the Paddy Power Plate winner four times. First to do so was Bobby Renton, who's winners came between 1954 and 1968.
Martin Pipe won the race for the first time when Terao scored in 1997. The last of his four wins came six years later, when Blowing Wind won. Pipe's son, David pipe has also won this handicap three times.
Nicky Henderson trained the first two-time winner of the Paddy Power Plate, 1985 and '86 winner The Tsarevich. Henderson has trained two further winners, Liberthine and Non So in 2005 and '06.
Venetia Williams has saddle the winner of this handicap three times, with the last of her victories coming with Carrickboy in 2013.
Irish trainers secured a hat-trick of wins between 2016 and '18. Colm Murphy's Empire Of Dirt, Noel Meade's Road To Respect and The Storyteller for Gordon Elliott.
Nick Williams celebrated his first Cheltenham Festival winner when Siruh Du Lac won the Paddy Power Plate under Lizzie Kelly in 2019.
The following season, Harry Whittington secured his first Festival winner, as Simply The Betts won the 2020 Paddy Power Plate. Another favourite came good in 2021, as The Shunter landed connections the £100k bonus by winning the Plate.
