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Golden Miller Novices' Chase

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Inaugurated
  
2011

Website
  
Cheltenham

Surface
  
Turf

Race type
  
Chase

Distance
  
2m 4f (4,023 metres)

Sponsor
  
Location
  
Cheltenham Racecourse Cheltenham, England

The JLT Novices' Chase is a Grade One National Hunt chase in Great Britain which is open to horses aged five years or older. It is run on the New Course at Cheltenham over a distance of about 2 miles and 4 furlongs (4,023 metres), and during its running there are seventeen fences to be jumped. It is a race for novice chasers and it is scheduled to take place each year on the third day of the Cheltenham Festival in March.

The race was initially sponsored by Jewson and was established in 2011 as a new race at the Festival. Jewson had sponsored a handicap race for novice chasers from 2005 to 2010, the Jewson Novices' Handicap Chase, which was run on the third day of the Festival. Jewson transferred their sponsorship to this new race at the 2011 Festival which took the place of the Novices' Handicap Chase on the third day, while the handicap race was moved to become the final race on the opening day of the Festival and retitled the Centenary Novices' Handicap Chase. The Jewson Novices' Chase was upgraded to Grade One by the British Horseracing Board from its 2014 running. The race's registered unsponsored title is the Golden Miller Novices' Chase, although it has always been run under sponsored titles.

On 9 January 2014 it was announced that sponsorship of the race would be taken over by insurance brokers JLT. The JLT group have already been associated with sponsorship of a festival race, having sponsored the Festival Trophy Handicap Chase since 2012.

Records

Leading jockey (2 wins):

  • Tony McCoy – Noble Prince (2011), Taquin du Seuil (2014)
  • Ruby Walsh – Vautour (2015), Black Hercules (2016)
  • Leading trainer (3 wins):

  • Willie Mullins – Sir Des Champs (2012), Vautour (2015), Black Hercules (2016)
  • References

    Golden Miller Novices' Chase Wikipedia