2025 Mares' Novices' Hurdle Odds - Maughreen leads Sixandahalf in Cheltenham market
- Latest odds and betting for the 2025 Mares' Novices' Hurdle
- This Grade Two takes place on day three of the 2024 Cheltenham Festival on Thursday 13th March
- Maughreen currently leads Sixandahalf in the betting

The Mares' Novices' Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival. (Getty)
St Patrick's Day at the Cheltenham Festival will now open with the Mares' Novices' Hurdle. Plenty of top-quality mares have won this Grade Two since it's creation in 2016 and this year's renewal is looking as open as ever.
Here's the latest Mares' Novices' Hurdle betting and a look at the most likely runners.
2025 Mares' Novices' Hurdle Odds
Name | Odds |
---|---|
Maughreen | 5/1 |
Sixandahalf | 6/1 |
Jubilee Alpha | 8/1 |
Diva Luna | 9/1 |
Kientzheim | 12/1 |
Bar | 14/1 |
2025 Mares' Novices' Hurdle Entries
Maughreen, from the same family as the great Faugheen, made a lasting impression when winning a bumper at Punchestown last January. So much so, that Willie Mullins' mare tops the ante-post betting for this Grade Two, despite not jumping a hurdle in public yet.
Gavin Cromwell watched Sixandahalf bolt up on her hurdles debut at Fairyhouse and this 94-rated flat horse now sits second in the Cheltenham betting. Third we find Paul Nicholls' Jubilee Alpha, who'll head straight to the Festival after back-to-back victories at Taunton and Windsor.
Nicky Henderson and JP McManus could be represented by Kempton maiden winner Kientzheim. Ben Pauling looks set to run three-time hurdles winner Diva Luna. Just A Rose could join stablemate Jubilee Alpha in the field following a hugely impressive maiden hurdle victory.
Willie Mullins has handed further entries to Listed winner Hey Sunshine, Naas scorer Baby Kate, and the runner-up in that contest, Karoline Banbou. Henry De Bromhead could run Down Royal winner Air Of Entitlement, with Harry Fry set to saddle Anno Power, who won a bumper at Cheltenham in April before a winning hurdles debut in December.
Other potential runners in the opener on St Patrick Day at the Cheltenham Festival include Nicky Henderson's Listed winner Holloway Queen, Gordon Elliott's mare Familiar Dreams, Listentoyourheart for Dan Skelton, and another couple for Willie Mullins in Riskabahia and Fleur Au Fusil.
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