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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
1st Stumptown 5/2f
2nd Latenightpass 11/1
3rd Vanillier 15/2

Cross Country Chase Day Card

Cheltenham Day 2 Card

TimeWednesday RacesStatusDistance
13:20Turners Novices' HurdleGrade One2m 5f
14:00Brown Advisory Novices' ChaseGrade One3m
14:40Coral Cup
Grade Three Handicap
2m 5f
15:20Cross Country ChaseClass Two Handicap3m 6f
16:00Champion ChaseGrade One2m
16:40Grand Annual ChaseGrade Three Handicap2m
17:20Champion BumperGrade One2m

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.

Cross Country Chase Winners

Year
Winner
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