Faugheen Novice Chase

The Faugheen Novice Chase is a Grade 1 National Hunt race in Ireland. It is run at Limerick Racecourse in December over a distance of about 2 miles and 3½ furlongs (2 miles 3 furlongs and 160 yards, or 3,968 metres).

Greenmount Park Novice Chase
2020
Colreevy Pencilfulloflead Janidil

The race is run on St. Stephen's Day, during the course's Christmas Festival. It is currently sponsored by Matchbook betting exchange. It was previously contested at Grade 2 level and was raised to Grade 1 status from the 2018 running.[1] Prior to 2020 it was run as the Greenmount Park Novice Chase before being renamed in honour of Faugheen, the 2019 winner of the race.[2]

Records

Leading jockey (2 wins):

  • David Casey – Financial Reward (2008), Dancing Tornado (2009)
  • Emmet Mullins – Sir Des Champs (2011), The Paparrazi Kid (2013)

Leading trainer (7 wins):

  • Willie Mullins – Financial Reward (2008), Sir Des Champs (2011), The Paparrazi Kid (2013), Outlander (2015), Bellshill (2016), Faugheen (2019), Colreevy (2020)

Winners since 1993
Year Winner Age Jockey Trainer
1993 Sullane River 5 D H O'Connor David J McGrath
1994 Imperial Call 5 G M O'Neill Fergie Sutherland
1995 Love The Lord 5 Tommy Treacy Daniel O'Connell
1996 Dun Belle 7 T J Mitchell P A Fahy
1997-
2000		No meeting
2001 Ellenjay 7 Barry Cash Arthur Moore
2002 Intelligent 6 Robbie Power Jessica Harrington
2003 Hi Cloy 6 Timmy Murphy Michael Hourigan
2004 Cane Brake 5 M D Grant David Wachman
2005 Baily Breeze 6 Paddy Flood Mouse Morris
2006 One Cool Cookie 5 Conor O'Dwyer Charlie Swan
2007 Merry Cowboy 6 Shane Flanagan Eamonn Sheehy
2008 Financial Reward 5 David Casey Willie Mullins
2009 Dancing Tornado 8 David Casey Michael Hourigan
2010 Mr Cracker 5 Adrian Heskin Michael Hourigan
2011 Sir Des Champs 5 Emmet Mullins Willie Mullins
2012 Argocat 4 Andrew McNamara Tom Taaffe
2013 The Paparrazi Kid 6 Emmet Mullins Willie Mullins
2014 Gilgamboa 6 Mark Walsh Enda Bolger
2015 Outlander 7 David Mullins Willie Mullins
2016 Bellshill 6 Paul Townend Willie Mullins
2017 Dounikos 6 Andrew Ring Gordon Elliott
2018 Hardline 6 Keith Donoghue Gordon Elliott
2019 Faugheen 11 Patrick Mullins[lower-alpha 1] Willie Mullins
2020 Colreevy 7 Danny Mullins Willie Mullins
  1. amateur jockey

See also

References
  1. "Greenmount Park Novice Chase upgraded to Grade 1". Horse Racing Ireland. 3 September 2018.
  2. Boylan, Mark (4 September 2020). "Limerick Grade 1 renamed to honour Faugheen as changes made to Irish schedule". Racing Post. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
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