The final race on day three of the Cheltenham Festival is the Kim Muir Challenge Cup. This three-and-a-quarter-mile handicap chase was first run at the meeting way back in 1946. The Kim Muir is open only to horses rated 145 or below, and only amateur jockeys are eligible to ride in the race.
Our guide to the Kim Muir handicap will be published when the entries and weights have been announced.
Kim Muir Challenge Cup Result
Position
Name
SP
1st
Daily Present
12/1
2nd
Johnnywho
9/2f
3rd
Sa Majeste
8/1
4th
Weveallbeencaught
28/1
5th
Manothepeople
40/1
Kim Muir Challenge Cup Day Card
Cheltenham Day 3 Card
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
Kim Muir Challenge Cup History
The Kim Muir Challenge Cup has closed the curtain on day three of the Cheltenham Festival for over half a century. First run in 1946, the Kim Muir is named in honour of a cavalry officer who lost his life during World War II.
In 1991, the name of Fulke Walwyn was added to the title of the race. Walwyn was a successful jockey and trainer, saddling 40 winners at the Festival during his lifetime.
The Kim Muir is a handicap chase, run over the same 3m 2f trip as the Cheltenham Gold Cup. The race is open only to chasers rated 145 or below, and only amateur jockies are eligible to ride in the race.
Fulke Walwyn trained the winner of the Kim Muir twice, his first win coming with Jack Tatters in 1949. Fred Winter, who's name also adorns a race at the Cheltenham Festival trained the second back-to-back Kim Muir winners, when Glyde Court won and retained his crown in 1985 and '86.
Fred Rimmell is the most successful trainer in this handicap, having saddled the winner on four occasions. Rimell's third winner, Nicolaus Silver became the first horse to complete the Kim Muir, Aintree Grand National double in 1961.
Cool Ground won the Kim Muir Challenge Cup in 1989. Richard Mitchell's charge would go on to win the Welsh Grand National the following year, before landing the Gold Cup in 1992.
Another Aintree hero to win the Kim Muir was Ballabriggs. Donald McCain's star won at the Cheltenham Festival in 2010, before scoring in the Grand National the following season.
The Package became the joint-oldest horse to win the Kim Muir when he won as a 12-year-old in 2015. 12 months later, Cause Of Causes won the second of his three Cheltenham Festival titles in the Kim Muir.
Derek O'Connor guided Any Second Now to victory in the 2019 Kim Muir Challenge Cup. In 2020, Gordon Elliott celebrated his second win in the race, as Milan Native scored under young jockey, Reece James.
Jack Kennedy then gave Mount Ida a sensational ride, guiding the favourite from last to first to win the 2021 Kim Muir.
