Dipper Novices' Chase

Dipper Novices' Chase
2016
Seeyouatmidnight Blaklion Le Mercurey

The Dipper Novices' Chase is a Grade 2 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 5 furlongs (4,225 metres), and during its running there are seventeen fences to be jumped. The race is for novice chasers, and it is scheduled to take place each year on New Year's Day.

Before 2005 the event was usually run at Newcastle in mid January. Its distance at this venue was 2 miles and 4 furlongs (4,023 metres), and there were sixteen fences to jump. Prior to the 1990–91 season it took place in November.

The race was first run in 1980.

Winners

Year
Winner
Age
Jockey
Trainer
1980Little Owl6Jonjo O'NeillPeter Easterby
1981Abandoned because of frost
1982Rosewell Riever9D NolanPeter Monteith
1983Lettoch6Graham BradleyMichael Dickinson
1984Jimbrook7Alan BrownPeter Easterby
1985Abandoned because of snow
1986Joint Sovereignty6Mark DwyerJimmy FitzGerald
1987 Jim Thorpe 6 Phil Tuck Gordon W. Richards
1988 Cool Strike 7 Brian Storey George M. Moore
1989 Blazing Walker 5 Chris Grant Arthur Stephenson
1991 Meritmoore 8 Jason Callaghan George M. Moore
1992 Gale Again 5 Chris Grant Arthur Stephenson
1993 Dawson City 6 Lorcan Wyer Peter Easterby
no race 1994
1995 Morceli 7 Neale Doughty Howard Johnson
1996 Avro Anson 8 Peter Niven Maurice Camacho
no race 1997
1998 Celestial Choir 8 Brian Storey Les Eyre
1999 Bobby Grant 8 Robbie Supple Chris Grant
2000 Donnybrook 7 Brian Harding Bob Woodhouse
2001 Red Striker 7 Richard Guest Norman Mason
2002 Barton 9 Tony Dobbin Tim Easterby
no race 2003–04 [1] [2]
2005 My Will 5 Ruby Walsh Paul Nicholls
2006 The Listener 7 Andrew Thornton Robert Alner
2007 My Way de Solzen 7 Robert Thornton Alan King
2008 Lead On 7 Richard Johnson Philip Hobbs
2009 Calgary Bay 6 Tony McCoy Henrietta Knight
2010 Seven Is My Number 8 Timmy Murphy David Pipe
2011 Hell's Bay 9 Joe Tizzard Colin Tizzard
2012 Champion Court 7 Alain Cawley Martin Keighley
no race 2013 [3]
2014 Oscar Whisky 9 Barry Geraghty Nicky Henderson
2015 Ptit Zig 6 Sam Twiston-Davies Paul Nicholls
2016 Seeyouatmidnight 8 Brian Hughes Sandy Thomson

1 The race was abandoned twice in 2003 – firstly at Newcastle (waterlogging), and then at Haydock Park (frost).
2 The 2004 running at Newcastle was cancelled because of frost.
3 The 2013 running was abandoned because of waterlogging.

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