Ryanair Chase Trends - Cheltenham Festival Betting

Jessica Lamb

November 1st, 2018

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TOP 5 RYANAIR CHASE TRENDS

• Rated 161+
• Run at Cheltenham before
• Run in at least one Grade 1
• Last ran no more than 82 days ago
• Won three or more times on galloping tracks

Did Trends Win The Last Ryanair Chase?

The 2019 Ryanair Chase was one of the hottest on record, with multiple Grade 1 winners lining up, but the trends shortlisted just Frodon, Road To Respect, and Monalee.

Road To Respect had won at the Cheltenham Festival in 2017, landing the 2m5f handicap chase, and had gone on to win three Grade 1 chases, including the previous November.

He had achieved a high enough rating too, as had the other trends picks, who though they had not won at the Festival, Monalee had placed over fences there, and Frodon had just won a Grade 2 chase.

Frodon went on to win, with Road To Respect in third and Monalee in fourth. The second Aso had returned from injury that season, and won his first two runs, but then massively disappointed in one of our 'Key Race Trends' (see below) and was disregarded.

KEY RYANAIR CHASE TRENDS

15-year-trends

The last 15 winners...

• Were aged between six and 10
• Last ran no more than 82 days ago
• Had three or more wins on a galloping track

10-year-trends

The last 10 winners…

• Had run at least six times over fences in their career
• Had run no more than four times that season
• Had run in at least three Grade 1s
• Had run at Cheltenham
• Had won on a left-handed track
• Were officially rated 161+

Nine of the last 10 winners…

• Had won at least four chases
• Were aged between seven and nine
• Had finished in the first two in one of their last three starts

Eight of the last 10 winners…

• Had won a Grade 1
• Had won at Cheltenham before

The last 29 win and place positions

29/29 placed horses

• Had run at least five times over fences in their career
• Had recorded at least two wins on a galloping track
• Had run no more than seven times in the last 12 months
• Had run no more than five times that season

28/29 placed horses

• Had won on a left-handed track

27/29 placed horses

• Were aged between seven and 10
• Had finished in the first two in one of their last three starts
• Had run at Cheltenham before

KEY RACE TRENDS (10 years)

(Last Graded race contested prior to the Ryanair Chase)

KEY TRAINER TRENDS (10 years)

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How Frodon Won 2019's Ryanair Chase

It was an historic Ryanair Chase as jockey Bryony Frost bounded to victory on Frodon becoming the first woman to win a Grade 1 chase at the Cheltenham Festival.

A year previously, he had been beaten 37 lengths by Balko Des Flos ridden by Sam Twiston-Davies, but under Frost that season the seven-year-old had thrived, winning the Old Roan Chase at Aintree, and the Caspian Caviar Gold Cup and Cotswold Chase at Cheltenham, as well as being second in the BetVictor Gold Cup.

2.50 CHELTENHAM - 2019 RYANAIR CHASE RESULT

1. Frodon 9/2
2. Aso 33/1
3. Road To Respect 9/2

Making every inch of the running, he crowned an epic campaign with the Grade 1 and Festival win his CV lacked, earning a first Cheltenham Festival win for Frost, at the expense of the Charlie Deutsch-ridden Aso.

Last year's Cheltenham Gold Cup fourth Road To Respect took third, ahead of Monalee and former Ryanair Chase winner Un De Sceaux. The 2018 winner Balko Des Flos was the second-last to finish, 7/2 favourite Footpad a further three and a half lengths behind, such was the gallop set by the inspirational winner.

Cheltenham 2020 Thursday Schedule

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14:10 Pertemps Final Handicap Hurdle trends

14:50 - Ryanair Chase

15:30 STAYERS' HURDLE trends

16:10 Festival Plate Handicap Chase trends

16:50 Dawn Run Mares' Novices' Hurdle trends

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