{"id":11124,"date":"2020-10-09T10:34:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T09:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mansionbet.com\/blog\/?p=11124"},"modified":"2024-05-30T14:50:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T13:50:34","slug":"the-steeple-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mansionbet.com\/blog\/sports\/horse-racing\/cheltenham-festival\/the-steeple-chase\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ryanair Steeple Chase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jump to:<\/strong> Tips and Predictions<\/a> | Betting Odds<\/a> | Recent Winners<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Date<\/strong><\/td>Thursday, March 17, 2022<\/td><\/tr>
Start Time<\/strong><\/td>14:30 (GMT+0)<\/td><\/tr>
Distance<\/strong><\/td>2m 5f<\/td><\/tr>
Type<\/strong><\/td>Chase<\/td><\/tr>
Prize<\/strong><\/td>\u00a3350,000<\/td><\/tr>
Where to Watch<\/strong><\/td><\/td><\/tr>
Horses\u2019 Age<\/strong><\/td>5+ Years.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
Cheltenham Festival Day 3<\/a>: Ryanair Steeple Chase<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Ryanair Steeple Chase is a National Hunt race held on Cheltenham Festival\u2019s third day<\/a>. It\u2019s the featured race of the day and highly anticipated by punters around the world. This Grade 1 steeplechase is run on Cheltenham\u2019s New Course for a generous \u00a3350,000 prize purse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Officially known as the Festival Trophy, the race was first sponsored by the Daily Telegraph. The first was held in 2005 and, back then, it was a Grade 2 event, though it was upgraded to Grade 1 in 2008. Since then, Ryanair has picked up sponsorship duties for the chase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ryanair Steeple Chase: Tips and Predictions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Note: the predictions below refer to the 2021 running of this race – preview will be updated closer to the beginning of the 2022 Cheltenham Festival.<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the most wide open Grade 1 race we will see this week. Min won last year, taking advantage of poor jumping from Saint Calvados late on. The former is a proven top-level performer and joins stablemates Allaho and Melon (second in all four Cheltenham Festival starts) in a mob-handed Willie Mullins quest for four Ryanair Chase wins in six years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Samcro is 2-2 at this meeting and not overlooked easily but IMPERIAL AURA was a winner here last March as a novice (beating Tuesday’s National Hunt Chase winner Galvin into second) and remains progressive. He was a Grade2 Ascot winner in November and his Kempton unseat in January is easily forgivable. This has long been his target and he goes especially well fresh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enda McElhinney\u2018s<\/a> Selection: Imperial Aura<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021 Winner: Allaho (Rachael Blackmore) 3\/1 Fav<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ryanair Steeple Chase: Betting Odds<\/h2>\n\n\n

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Ryanair Steeple Chase: Recent Winners<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Year<\/strong><\/td>Horse<\/strong><\/td>Jockey<\/strong><\/td>Trainer<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
2021<\/td>Allaho<\/td>Rachael Blackmore<\/td>Willie Mullins<\/td><\/tr>
2020<\/td>Min<\/td>Paul Townend<\/td>Willie Mullins<\/td><\/tr>
2019<\/td>Frodon<\/td>Bryony Frost<\/td>Paul Nicholls<\/td><\/tr>
2018<\/td>Balko des Flos<\/td>Davy Russell<\/td>Henry de Bromhead<\/td><\/tr>
2017<\/td>Un de Sceaux<\/td>Ruby Walsh<\/td>Willie Mullins<\/td><\/tr>
2016<\/td>Vautour<\/td>Ruby Walsh<\/td>Willie Mullins<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
Source: Wikipedia<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jump to: Tips and Predictions | Betting Odds | Recent Winners Date Thursday, March 17, 2022 Start Time 14:30 (GMT+0) Distance 2m 5f Type Chase Prize \u00a3350,000 Where to Watch Horses\u2019 Age 5+ Years. Cheltenham Festival Day 3: Ryanair Steeple Chase The Ryanair Steeple Chase is a National Hunt race held on Cheltenham Festival\u2019s third […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":39465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[618],"class_list":["post-11124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cheltenham-festival","tag-cheltenham-racecourse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mansionbet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mansionbet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mansionbet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansionbet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansionbet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11124"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansionbet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39569,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansionbet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11124\/revisions\/39569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansionbet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mansionbet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansionbet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mansionbet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}