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2025 Cross Country Chase Tips, Odds and News
One of the most popular races on day two of the Cheltenham Festival is the Cross Country Chase. This unique race features an array of weird and wonderful obstacles, and only the strongest stayer in the field will triumph over this three-and-three-quarter-mile trip.
Cross Country Chase Key Facts
Date | Wednesday 11th March, 2026 |
Time | 3:20pm |
Course | Cheltenham |
Status | Class Two Handicap |
Distance | 3m 6f |
Prize Pool | £65k |
Age | 5YO+ |
Cross Country Chase Odds
No odds are currently available for the Cross Country.
Cross Country Chase Tips
Our guide to the Cross Country will be published in the weeks leading up to the Cheltenham Festival.
Cross Country Chase Result
Position | Name | SP |
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1st | Stumptown | 5/2f |
2nd | Latenightpass | 11/1 |
3rd | Vanillier | 15/2 |
Cross Country Chase Day Card
Cheltenham Day 2 Card
Time | Wednesday Races | Status | Distance |
13:20 | Turners Novices' Hurdle | Grade One | 2m 5f |
14:00 | Brown Advisory Novices' Chase | Grade One | 3m |
14:40 | Coral Cup | Grade Three Handicap | 2m 5f |
15:20 | Cross Country Chase | Class Two Handicap | 3m 6f |
16:00 | Champion Chase | Grade One | 2m |
16:40 | Grand Annual Chase | Grade Three Handicap | 2m |
17:20 | Champion Bumper | Grade One | 2m |
Cross Country Chase History
The Cross Country Chase is the most unique race at the Cheltenham Festival. First run in 2005, the runners in the Cross Country tackle a series of weird and wonderful obstacles, during a three-mile-six-furlong course that winds its way around the grounds at Prestbury Park.
A series of Cross Country races are staged at Cheltenham throughout the season, giving possible Festival runners some valuable experience around this tricky track. Glenfarclas has been sponsoring Cheltenham's Cross Country series since 2008.
Irish Cross Country specialist, Enda Bolger dominated the early runnings of the Cross Country. Bolger saddled the Cross Country winner in four of the first five runnings, last lifting the trophy when Josies Orders was handed that race in 2016.
JT McNamara rode Bolger's first winner in 2005. Nina Carbery was in the saddle for Bolger's other four victories, and she remains the most successful jockey in the history of the race.
Garde Champetre secured back-to-back Cross Country wins in 2008 and 2009. His feat was matched by Philip Hobbs' Balthazar King, won scored at the Festival in 2012 and 2014.
Gold Cup winning trainer, Gordon Elliott has saddled three of the last four winners. His first Cross Country triumph came in 2017 with Cause Of Causes, who went on to finish second in the Grand National at Aintree.
Tiger Roll then took over where his stablemate left off in 2018, and successfully defended his crown in 2019. In both of those seasons, Tiger Roll went on to win the Aintree Grand National.
The great Tiger Roll attempted to become the first three-time Cross Country winner in 2020. Sadly, for his supporters, the favourite was beaten by French raider Easysland, who powered home on soft ground to beat Tiger Roll by a comfortable margin.
Just when it seemed like he was done, Tiger Roll roared back to top form to beat Easysland in the 2021 Cross Country.
Just when it seemed like he was done, Tiger Roll roared back to top form to beat Easysland in the 2021 Cross Country.
Cross Country Chase Winners
Year | Winner |
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2025 | Stumptown |
2024 | Abandoned |
2023 | Delta Work |
2022 | Delta Work |
2021 | Tiger Roll |
2020 | Easysland |
2019 | Tiger Roll |
2018 | Tiger Roll |
2017 | Cause Of Causes |
2016 | Josies Orders |
2015 | Rivage D'Or |
2014 | Balthazar King |
2013 | Big Shu |
2012 | Balthazar King |
2011 | Sizing Australia |
2010 | A New Story |
2009 | Garde Champetre |
2008 | Garde Champetre |
2007 | Heads Onthe Ground |
2006 | Native Jack |
2005 | Spot Thedifference |