Fred Winter Juvenile Hurdle

Fred Winter Juvenile Handicap Hurdle

The Fred Winter Handicap Hurdle is restricted to juvenile (four-year-old) hurdlers.

It honours Fred Winter, a Cheltenham Festival legend who rode 17 winners and trained a further 28. The race was run as the Boodles Juvenile Handicap Hurdle from 2018 to 2024 and, from 2025, is officially titled the Hallgarten and Novum Wines Juvenile Handicap Hurdle.

Introduced in 2005, it is run over the same course and distance as the Supreme Novices’ and Champion Hurdles. It provides an alternative Festival target for juveniles not quite deemed good enough for the Triumph Hurdle.

Once dominated by French-bred runners or those sourced from France, the balance has shifted, with six of the last nine winners bred in Ireland. Only one British-bred horse has won in the last 17 years — Crack Away Jack in 2008 — and even he began his career in France.

The race is notorious for shocks, producing winners at 25/1, 33/1, 40/1 and even 80/1 in the past 14 years. It also remains one of the few Cheltenham Festival races still to be won by Willie Mullins.

 

Tuesday 16.40 | 4yo only | Grade 3
2 miles ½ furlong | 8 hurdles | Old Course
Weight: 10st – 11st 10lb (handicap)
2025 Prize money: £80,000

 

---

---

 

PREVIOUS WINNERS

YEAR	WINNER	SP
2025	Puturhandstogether	17/2
2024	Lark In The Mornin	9/1
2023	Jazzy Matty	18/1
2022	Brazil	10/1
2021	Jeff Kidder	80/1
2020	Aramax	15/2
2019	Band Of Outlaws	7/2f
2018	Veneer of Charm	33/1
2017	Flying Tiger	33/1
2016	Diego Du Charmil	13/2
2015	Qualando	25/1
2014	Hawk High	33/1
2013	Flaxen Flare	25/1
2012	Une Artiste	40/1
2011	What A Charm	9/1
2010	Sanctuaire	4/1f
2009	Silk Affair	11/1
2008	Crack Away Jack	14/1
2007	Gaspara	9/2f
2006	Shamayoun	40/1
2005	Dabiroun	20/1

---