Run under various titles in the past, the Greatwood Hurdle is a two-mile, half-a-furlong handicap hurdle race (Grade 3) with its origins going back to 1987 when Celtic Shot was the first winner of the event. It is run each year during Cheltenham’s second meeting of the season, the November Meeting in the middle of that month, with the 2021 edition due to take place on Sunday 14th.
Many future Cheltenham Festival runners have used the Greatwood as a season-starting prep race, most notably for the Champion Hurdle but also for races such as the County Hurdle or even the Supreme Novices’. While only one winner in recent times has gone on to Festival glory, this remains a race of great importance when assessing Cheltenham form overall.
Back in 2002 Philip Hobbs’ Rooster Booser, at eight years old the oldest horse to have won the Greatwood in the last 20 years, went on from his win in this race to score in the Champion Hurdle itself when scorching away by 11 lengths under Richard Johnson to record a famous and very popular victory.
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Greatwood Hurdle Stats & Trends
The key thing to remember is that this is a handicap hurdle, so while the above list will show that for the majority of the better horses this is used as a Champion Hurdle trial, it can in fact be won by a horse lower in the weights who will not be aimed very high at the Festival.
Prevailing trends can help you find the winner of big betting races like the Greatwood Hurdle at Cheltenham. Stats are no guarantee of course, but you are more likely to make better informed decisions knowing them. Don’t forget to use Boylesports Cheltenham specials or the likes to increase your benefit and/or reduce risks. Here are some for the Greatwood Hurdle you should know:
The race has invariably been won by a top trainer/jockey combo, so stay away from those representing smaller yards even when their form looks decent.
In these 19 renewals, only three favourites at 11/8, 6/5 and 10/3 have won while two genuine outsiders at 33/1 and 20/1 have also scored. The other 14 winners were at prices ranging from 5/1 to 12/1 with an average SP of around 8/1, so it seems looking at those fancied runners just outside the head of the market is the way to go.
Leading jockeys – Richard Johnson has ridden three winners of the race, sharing the record with Jamie Osborne and Tony McCoy. Paddy Brennan is the only other active jockey to have had more than once success in the Greatwood Hurdle.
Leading trainers – Martin Pipe and Philip Hobbs have each saddled a joint record four winners of this. Paul Nicholls, meanwhile, has trained three winners and two since 2011. Alan King had two successes in the Greatwood Hurdle in the last three seasons with Elgin (2017) and Harambe (2019).
Favourites – The market leader has a poor recent record. Just three Greatwood Hurdle favourites and none after 2006 have obliged this century. It makes sense to look elsewhere in the betting, then.
Age – There is a clear age profile for the Greatwood Hurdle with younger horses favoured. Only three horses older than six have ever won this race, so it’s clear you should concentrate on those with youth on their side. Five five-year-olds have won the race in the last 10 years and three four-year-olds since 2011, and 11 of the past 14 victors were either four or five.
Rating – Only one horse since Rooster Booster carried topweight to victory in the 2002 Greatwood Hurdle has been rated over 150 and won the race. Five of the last nine victors had an official BHA handicap mark of between 141 and 149, but the last two renewals when to horses with lower ratings.
Weight – Since 2011, only two horses have carried more than 11 stone to victory. Focusing on those in the lower half of the weights could pay off, then. Four horses from 2002 onwards have defied topweight in the Greatwood Hurdle, though, so you can’t totally discount classy hoses framing the handicap.
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Past Greatwood Hurdle Winners
2020 Greatwood Hurdle Recap
The Shunter, one of the Irish raiders in the 2020 Greatwood Hurdle, landed a gamble on rain softened ground. After being bigger prices the night before and opening at 10/1, the money was down Emmet Mullins’ charge as he was backed into a 13/2 chance off bottom weight. Robbie Power looked to be in trouble aboard this horse at one stage when he lost ground at the third last, but he soon rallied and led on the run-in before pulling clear up the Cheltenham hill. At the line, The Shunter was a comfortable three-length victor over topweight Ballyandy, who once again ran a mighty race under a welter burden for father-son team Sam and Nigel Twiston-Davies at 8/1.
They finished just ahead of the 4/1 favourite Tegerek from the Jonjo O’Neill stable, who was in turn another three lengths clear of Olly Murphy trained veteran Hunters Call in fourth at 16/1. Ante post favourite Edwardstone (returned at a 13/2 starting price) kept on into fifth for Alan King, but stable companion and previous Greatwood Hurdle winner Harambe came to grief when still in with a chance at the last. That hampered Paul Nicholls’ 9/1 hope Sir Psycho. While 10 of the 14-runner field (17 were declared, but three horses pulled out because of the going) finished the race, 5/1 second-favourite Proschema was one of three to pull-up with his chance blunted by the testing ground.
What Happened in 2019?
Harambe took a big step forward from his disappointing return to action when seventh in the Persian War at Chepstow by getting compensation in the Greatwood Hurdle. Tom Bellamy was back aboard him for the first time in almost a year and held him up towards the rear. Harambe, returned at odds of 16/1 was fourth jumping the last but ran on superbly up the famous Cheltenham hill and came with a late swoop, just touching off the rallying 9/1 chance Gumball from the Philip Hobbs stable by a neck. This gave trainer Alan King a second winner of the Greatwood Hurdle in the space of three seasons.
It was a further neck back to Monsieur Lecoq (9/1) for mother-daughter duo Jane Williams and Lizzie Kelly in third, while Welsh raider Quoi De Neuf (7/1) was behind in fourth for trainer Evan Williams and Adam Wedge. Nicky Henderson’s JP McManus owned mare, Dame De Compagnie (6/1) ran an eye-catching fifth but may need further than the extended two-mile trip of the Greatwood Hurdle. Benny’s Bridge, the 9/2 favourite, was never travelling and finished well down the field.