Arkle Challenge Chase (Cotswold Chase)
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The Arkle Challenge Trophy is a Grade 1 race open to 5-year-olds and above and is run on the Old Course over 2 miles and 13 fences. The race, named in honour of the Gold Cup winner Arkle, is for novices and is traditionally run as the second race on the opening day of the Festival, but was first introduced into the Festival programme in 1969 as a replacement for the Cotswold Chase, a race which was first run at the Festival in 1923 and still exists today, but is no longer part of the Festival programme. |
| Early history:-The inaugural running of the Arkle Challenge Chase took place on Wednesday 19th March 1969 and was won by Chatham (10/1) trained by Fred Rimell and ridden by Terry Biddlecombe, beating Straight Fort (5/1) and King Dolphin (20/1) by 2 lengths and 8 lengths. | |
Over the entire history of the race 28% of favourites have been successful, placing the race 12th of the 28 current races. |
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| Arkle Challenge Chase 1992 | Grade 1 | 2 miles | ||
| Pos. | Horse | Jockey | Trainer | Owner |
| 1 | YOUNG POKEY | Jamie Osborne | Oliver Sherwood | M L Oberstein 4/1 |
| 2 | TINRYLAND | Peter Scudamore | Nicky Henderson | Michael Buckley 5/1 |
| 3 | SPACE FAIR | Adrian Maguire | Richard Lee | Mrs R Fifield 11/1 |
| 4 | DEEP SENSATION | Declan Murphy | Josh Gifford | R F Eliot 3/1 fav |
| 5 | FRAGRANT DAWN | Graham Bradley | Martin Pipe | Stuart Mercer 20/1 |
| 6 | BOUNDEN DUTY | Mark Perrett | Guy Harwood | Mrs Paul Locke 50/1 |
| 7 | MASS APPEAL | Charlie Swan | V Bowens | W Mooney 12/1 |
| 8 | VALRODIAN | I Lawrence | Michael Robinson | D W Samuel 16/1 |
| F | SHAMANA | Richard Dunwoody | David Nicholson | Lord Northampton 10/1 |
| PU | ALKINOR REX | Mark Richards | Guy Harwood | M C Peraticos 11/1 |
| UR | FLASHY BUCK | Tom Taaffe | Arthur Moore Ire | Mrs R J Bothway 20/1 |
| Over round 113% | ||||
| This race was staged on Tuesday 16th March 1992 when Young Pokey beat Tinryland and Space Fair by 3 1/2 lengths and 2 lengths | ||||
