Weatherbys Champion Bumper

The Weatherbys Champion Bumper is the only Cheltenham Festival Race without hurdles. The Bumper is essentially a flat race run under National Hunt racing rules, over a distance just over two miles.

Despite the Champion Bumper only having a brief history the Irish Trainer Willie Mullins already possesses a fine record in this race with a total of 6 winners and the very first Cheltenham Champion Bumper tip is that is well be worth looking at his entries in this race.

Not only is Willie Mullins to be feared but all the Irish trainers as the Champion Bumper is one of the races that the Irish give major importance to in their National Hunt season.

The Champion Bumper form is so important for shaping the Supreme Novices Hurdle betting for the following year as the leading players in the Bumper are the initial favourites for the following years Cheltenham Novice Hurdler.

Irish-trained raiders have won an amazing 14 of the 17 runnings of the Weatherbys Champion Bumper and they account for 17 of this year’s 38 entries. Willie Mullins, who has trained six previous winners, has five horses engaged in this race, all of them unbeaten. Tavern Times, who was formerly trained by Mullins’ brother Tom, Bishopsfurze, Day Of A Lifetime, Lios A Choill and Up Ou That make up his team.

Dermot Weld, who saddled Rite Of Passage to be third last year, could run Elegant Concorde and Hidden Universe, the likely mount of leading Flat jockey Pat Smullen, while six-time British champion Flat rider Kieren Fallon is set to partner Old McDonald for trainer Noel Glynn.

Champion British Jump trainer Paul Nicholls feels he has his best ever chance of landing the Weatherbys Champion Bumper via Al Ferof, whose owner John Hales is also represented by recent purchase Don’t Turn Bach.

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Weatherbys Champion Bumper Odds

The Champion Bumper odds are put up by the online bookies quite early but a key factor in the market is that quite often the best of the Irish entries only make their debut on the course six weeks before the Cheltenham Festival.

This relatively short timeframe makes the Champion Bumper ante post market very volatile and you can watch all the market moves on out odds comparison chart.

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Weatherbys Champion Bumper Form

The Champion Bumper form requires loads of scrutiny from both sides of the water and in our era we are very fortunate that we have wall to wall TV coverage of both UK and Irish Horse Racing meetings so we can keep in touch with the key players as they make their racecourse debuts.

Champion Bumper Form

Weatherbys Champion Bumper Tips

While we have indicated that one Champion Bumper tip is to consider the entry of Willie Mullins but he generally has two or even three in the Cheltenham feature and therefore you may need to have a small wager on a couple of his horses to avoid missing the winner.

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Weatherbys Champion Bumper Results

As mentioned the Irish have made this race their benefit with winning all but one of the renewals of this race in the 2000s

2009 Dunguib P Fenton 9/2
2008 Cousin Vinny 5 W Mullins 12/1
2007 Cork All Star 5 Mrs John Harrington 11/2
2006 Hairy Molly 6 J Crowley 33/1
2005 Missed That 6 W Mullins 7/2F
2004 Total Enjoyment 5 T Cooper 7/1
2003 Liberman 5 M Pipe 2/1F
2002 Pizarro 5 E O’Grady 14/1
2000 Joe Cullen 5 W Mullins 14/1
 

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