Staged at Huntingdon racecourse over 2m 4½f the Peterborough Chase is a Grade Two chase run in December each year. The contest often attracts some decent names from the jumping world, with horses like Edredon Bleu, Best Mate, Racing Demon and Monet’s Garden all recent previous winners of the valuable race.

The event has also been a fair guide for that season’s Ryanair Chase, run at the Cheltenham Festival, with seven winners going onto finish 7^th or better in that contest – including the 2019 winner – Josses Hill, who ended up 5^th in the Ryanair Chase.

Trainer Henrietta Knight, who is now retired, has dominated the race in recent times with a staggering 8 victories since 1998, while Nicky Henderson landed the spoils four times back in the nineties, and more recently in 2013 with Riverside Theatre, in 2016 with Josses Hill and in 2017 & 2019 with Top Notch.

However, Henderson added to those successes in 2020 too and equalled Knight’s haul of 8 Peterborough Chase wins, when the 6 year-old, Mister Fisher won the prize, with the race re-routed to Cheltenham. In 2021, the Kim Bailey runner First Flow won the Peterborough Chase, while Paul Nicholls took the 2022 won the race with Pic D’Orhy.

Horse racing trends expert Andy Newton looks back at recent winners and highlights the key trends ahead of the 2023 renewal – this year run on Sunday 3^rd December.

Recent Peterborough Chase Winners

2022 – Pic D’Orhy (9/4)
2021 – First Flow (12/1)
2020 - Mister Fisher (9/2)
2019 – Top Notch (15/8 fav)
2018 – Charbel (13/8 fav)
2017 – Top Notch (4/9 fav)
2016 – Josses Hill (7/4 fav)
2015 – Al Ferof (9/4)
2014 – Wishfull Thinking (13/2)
2013 – Riverside Theatre (9/4 fav)
2012 – Menorah (7/2)
2011 – Gauvain (15/2)
2010 – Tartak (11/4)
2009 – Deep Purple (12/1)
2008 – Monet’s Garden (5/1)
2007 – Racing Demon (1/4 fav)
2006 – Racing Demon (13/8 jfav)
2005 – Impek (5/1)
2004 – Le Roi Miguel (15/8 fav)
2003 – Jair du Cochet (10/3)
2002 – Best Mate  (8/15 fav)

Peterborough Chase Betting Trends

19/21 – Had won a race at Grade 2 or higher before
18/21 – Came from the first three in the betting
18/21 – Had won (fences) over at least 2m4f before
18/21 – Aged 9 or younger
18/21 – Officially rated 155 or higher
17/21 – Had raced within the last 8 weeks
17/21 – Priced 5/1 or shorter in the betting
17/21 – Either Irish (9) or French (8) bred
15/21 – Placed fifth or better last time out
15/21 – Placed favourites
15/21 – Had won at least 4 times over fences before
15/21 – Winners that went onto run at that season’s Cheltenham Festival
14/21 – Had between 1-2 previous runs already that season
11/21 – Aged 6 or 7 years-old
10/21 – Winning favourites (1 joint)
9/21 – Former Grade 1 chase winners
8/21 – Won last time out
8/21 – Went onto finish 7^th or better (no winners) in that season’s Ryanair Chase
5/21 – Trained by Nicky Henderson (8 wins in total)
3/21 – Ran at Aintree in the Old Roan Chase last time out
2/21 – Trained by Philip Hobbs
1/21 – Went onto win at that season’s Cheltenham Festival (2002 Best Mate, Gold Cup)
The average winning SP in the last 21 years is 10/3

Note: The 2010 renewal was staged at Newbury, the 2020 running was staged at Cheltenham

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