Worcester Novices' Chase

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The Worcester Novices' Chase is a Grade 2 National Hunt chase in the United Kingdom for five-year-old and above novices. It is run over a distance of 3 miles (4,828 metres) at Newbury Racecourse in late November or early December. There are eighteen fences to be jumped in the race.

Prior to 2000 it was run at Worcester Racecourse over 2 miles 7½ furlongs and prior to 1996 the race distance was 2 miles 7 furlongs. It was first run under its present conditions in 1990, having previously been run as the Fred Rimell Memorial Novices' Chase over 2 miles 4 furlongs.

The only winner of the race to go on to win one of the Grade 1 races in the three-mile novice chasing division has been Darkness, subsequent winner of the 2005 Feltham Novices' Chase. Two runners have gone on to win the Royal & SunAlliance Chase – Young Hustler, fourth in 1992, and One Knight, third in 2002.

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  • Amateur jockeys indicated by "Mr".
Year
 Winner
 Age
 Jockey
 Trainer
1990 Killbanon 8 Simon Earle Chris Trietline
1991 Captain Dibble 6 Peter Scudamore Nigel Twiston-Davies
1992 Barton Bank 6 Richard Dunwoody David Nicholson
1993 See More Indians 6 Graham Bradley Paul Nicholls
1994 no race 1994
1995 Betty's Boy 6 Richard Dunwoody Kim Bailey
1996 Pleasure Shared 8 Chris Maude Philip Hobbs
1997 Ottowa 7 Timmy Murphy Paul Nicholls
1998 Ocean Hawk 6 Carl Llewellyn Nigel Twiston-Davies
1999 Connor Macleod 6 Norman Williamson Mark Pitman
2000 Shotgun Willy 6 Joe Tizzard Paul Nicholls
2001 Valley Henry 6 Timmy Murphy Paul Nicholls
2002 Lucky Bay 6 Jim Culloty Henrietta Knight
2003 Ballycassidy 7 Richard Johnson Peter Bowen
2004 Cornish Rebel 7 Tony McCoy Paul Nicholls
2005 Darkness 6 Barry Fenton Charles Egerton
2006 Boychuk 5 Richard Johnson Philip Hobbs
2007 Joe Lively 8 Joe Tizzard Colin Tizzard

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