Cotswold Chase: Runner by runner betting guide
It hasn’t been since the days of See More Business that we saw the winner of the Cotswold Chase go on to win the main event at the Cheltenham Festival, and even with that, See More Business did not win his Gold Cup until the following year. Can this trend be broken today? It’s highly unlikely, but someone has to take home the £70,000+ first prize. Race info: Level – Grade 2 Distance – 3m1½f Course – New Age – 5yo+ Cotswold Chase runners Let’s run through all six runners for the 2025 Betfair Cotswold Chase. Get the best odds for the Cotswold Chase from the best UK online horse racing bookmakers. 5 L’Homme Presse Age: 10 Weight: 11st 4lb Form: /124-3 Rating: 163 Jockey: Charlie Deutsch Trainer: Venetia Williams Odds: 1/1 On the back of a big run in the King Geroge, L’Homme Presse comes here looking to add to his two-from-three Cheltenham record. With a win in the Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase and a fourth-place finish to Galopin Des Champs in last season’s Gold Cup, you can see why the Venetia Williams trained gelding is so short in the betting. He has more than enough talent to take this, but how much of a mark has the King George left? When we look back at the race, he put in a massive effort to keep going for third on the back of a breakneck gallop. So the question is, how much has that taken out of a horse that has proven to be fragile in the past? At the age of ten, with his history of being fragile and the ground not looking ideal, he may be worth taking on at his current price. Good course record Get weight off Gentlemansgame Goes best on soft ground Star rating: Bet on L’Homme Presse with talkSPORT BET 1 Gentlemansgame Age: 9 Weight: 11st 10lb Form: 1P5-43 Rating: 160 Jockey: Darragh O’Keeffe Trainer: Mouse Morris Odds: 3/1 When Mouse Morris sends a horse to the UK outside of the Cheltenham Festival, you need to take serious notice of his runners. Having made his name as one of the best target trainers, Mouse Morris would have targeted this a long way out for Gentlemansgame. Last season, Mouse sent Gentelmansgame over for the Charlie Hall Chase, where he beat the odds on Bravemansgame. So, we already know that Gentelmansgame can turn it on in the UK outside of grade one company. This season, on the back of a third to Galopin Des Champs in the Grade 1 Savills Chase, Gentlemansgame will be primed to take the Cotswold Chase. The only negative with him is that he must concede weight to all his five rivals, but with that run under his belt, he can give L’Homme Presse weight and a beating. Comes here on the best of career-best run Must concede weight to all his rivals Star rating: Bet on Gentlemansgame with Sky Bet 3 Chantry House Age: 11 Weight: 11st 4lb Form: 09-551 Rating: 154 Jockey: Nico de Boinville Trainer: Nicky Henderson Odds: 15/2 No one was as shocked as Nicky Henderson when Chantry House put it all together to win over course and distance last time out, and it looked like it messed up plans for Chantry House to go hunter chasing. So, can you trust that this 11-year-old can back up his first win since January 2022? The simple answer is no. There is no way you can bet on Chantry House with any confidence to back up that run, especially given his record. The smart play is to avoid him, given his overall profile. Turned back the clock to win impressively last time out Can’t be trusted on his overall form Star rating: Bet on Chantry House with Paddy Power 2 Stage Star Age: 9 Weight: 11st 8lb Form: 1P5-47 Rating: 159 Jockey: Harry Cobden Trainer: Paul Nicholls Odds: 9/1 Ever since Stage Star won the 2023 Paddy Power Chase, he has looked like a shell of his former self. His form figures since that win read P547, with his best run being a 3-length defeat behind Minella Drama in the Old Roan Chase in October. There is very little to give you a glimmer of hope on his last run that suggests that he can turn it around here. From what we have seen this season, it’s best to avoid backing him until he shows some of his old spark. Former Grade 1 winning novice Looks badly out of form Star rating: Bet on Stage Star with Midnite 4 Delta Work Age: 12 Weight: 11st 4lb Form: 662-50 Rating: 157 Jockey: Sean Bowen Trainer: Gordon Elliott Odds: 33/1 It’s a case of how the might have fallen with Delta Work. A former Grade 1 winner chaser in his prime, but for his achievements, Delta Work will forever be remembered as the horse that ruined Tiger Rolls’ farewell party. These days, he is miles off that kind of form, and this race will solely be used as a prep run for a crack at the Cross-Country race at the Festival before a swansong in the Grand National to see if he can go one place better than last season, i
It hasn’t been since the days of See More Business that we saw the winner of the Cotswold Chase go on to win the main event at the Cheltenham Festival, and even with that, See More Business did not win his Gold Cup until the following year.
Can this trend be broken today? It’s highly unlikely, but someone has to take home the £70,000+ first prize.
Race info:
- Level – Grade 2
- Distance – 3m1½f
- Course – New
- Age – 5yo+
Cotswold Chase runners
Let’s run through all six runners for the 2025 Betfair Cotswold Chase.
Get the best odds for the Cotswold Chase from the best UK online horse racing bookmakers.
