Staged at Ascot racecourse the Clarence House Chase is a Grade One contest run over a distance of 2m1f.
The Clarence House Chase was first run back in 1989 when the popular Desert Orchid won the prize as a 10 year-old.
The race is also a good guide to that season’s Queen Mother Champion Chase with Sprinter Sacre landing both races in 2013, Sire de Grugy in 2014, while Dodging Bullets did the same double in 2015, plus most recently Altior in 2019.
The Willie Mullins-trained Un De Sceaux also made the race his own by landing three of the last nine renewals.
The 2023 running was won by Editeur Du Gite and the Gary Moore yard - their second win in the contest since 2014 and was also staged at Cheltenham.
While last year (2025) Jonbon made up for finishing second in 2024 and won the race - giving trainer Nicky Henderson a seventh success.
Trainers Nicky Henderson (7) and Paul Nicholls (5) have also won the race 12 times between them and– as mentioned – the Willie Mullins camp have taken three of the last 10 runnings.
Here at GeeGeez, we are on hand with all the key stats ahead of the 2026 renewal – this year due to be run on Saturday 17th January.
Recent Clarence House Chase Winners
2025 - JONBON (8/13 fav)
2024 – ELIXIR DE NUTZ (22/1)
2023 – EDITEUR DU GITE (14/1)
2022 – SHISHKIN (5/6 fav)
2021 - FIRST FLOW (14/1)
2020 – DEFI DU SEUIL (11/10 jfav)
2019 – ALTIOR (1/10 fav)
2018 – UN DE SCEAUX (4/9 fav)
2017 – UN DE SCEAUX (1/2 fav)
2016 – UN DE SCEAUX (1/2 fav)
2015 – DODGING BULLETS (7/2)
2014 – SIRE DE GRUGY (5/4 fav)
2013 – SPRINTER SACRE (1/5 fav)
2012 – SOMERSBY (9/2)
2011 – MASTER MINDED (4/7 fav)
2010 – TWIST MAGIC (11/8 fav)
2009 – MASTER MINDED (1/4 fav)
2008 – TAMARINBLEU (12/1)
2007 – No Race
2006 – TYSOU (10/1)
2005 – WELL CHIEF (5/1)
2004 – ISIO (4/1)
2003 – No Race
Clarence House Chase Trends
22/22 – Raced within the last 7 weeks
22/22 – Won at least 3 times (fences) previously
20/22 – Won by a horse aged 9 or younger
20/22 – Won a race over fences at 2m1f or further
19/22 – Went onto run at that season’s Cheltenham Festival
19/22 – Favourites placed
18/22 – Winners from the top 3 in the betting market
16/22 – Won their last race
16/22 – Won by a French-bred horse
15/22 – Went onto run in that season’s Champion Chase (5 winners)
13/22 – Raced within the last 4 weeks
13/22 – Raced at Sandown or Wetherby last time out
12/22 – Winning distance – 4 lengths or less
12/22 – Favourites that won
8/22 – Won by a horse aged 8 years-old
6/22 – Had won the Tingle Creek Chase (Sandown) last time out
5/22 – Won by the Nicky Henderson stable (won the race 7 times in all)
5/22 – Went onto win the Champion Chase that season (2009 - Master Minded, 2013 -Sprinter Sacre, 2014 - Sire de Grugy, 2015 - Dodging Bullets, 2019 - Altior)
4/22 – Won by the Paul Nicholls stable (won the race 5 times in all)
3/22 – Trained by Willie Mullins (3 of last 10)
2/22– Won by the Pipe stable
2/22 – Won by the Gary Moore stable
Since 2014 – Four Desert Orchind Chase (Kempton) winners have won the this in the same season (Editeur Du Gite 2023, Shishkin 2022, Altior 2019, Sire Du Grugy 2014)
Since 1989 there have only been 4 winners aged in double-figures
Since 1989 (33 runnings) there have been 13 winners aged 8 years-old
The average winning SP in the last 23 runnings is 4/1
Note:
2006 – Renewal at Sandown
2005, 2013, 2017, 2023 & 2024 – Renewals at Cheltenham
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