Premier Handicap race | |
Location | Aintree Racecourse, Aintree, Merseyside, England |
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Inaugurated | 1949 |
Race type | Steeplechase |
Sponsor | Randox Health |
Website | www.thejockeyclub.co.uk/aintree/ |
Race information | |
Distance | 2 miles 5 furlongs 19 yards (4,242 metres) |
Surface | Turf |
Qualification | Five-years-old and up |
Weight | Handicap Maximum: 11 st 12 lb |
Purse | £150,000 (2022) 1st: £84,195 |
2024 | ||
Arizona Cardinal | James Du Berlais | Kandoo Kid |
Previous years | ||
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2023 | ||
Bill Baxter | Fantastic Lady | Killer Kane |
2022 | ||
Mac Tottie | Batcio | Annamix |
2021 | ||
Livelovelaugh | Pink Eyed Pedro | Senior Citizen |
1990-1988 | ||
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1990 | ||
Wont Be Gone Long | Villierstown | Golden Minstrel |
1989 | ||
Villierstown | Eton Rouge | Red Columbia |
1988 | ||
Wiggburn | Pan Arctic | Villierstown |
The Topham Chase is a Premier Handicap National Hunt handicap chase in England which is open to horses aged five years or older. It is run at Aintree over a distance of about 2 miles and 5 furlongs (2 miles 5 furlongs and 19 yards, or 4,242 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in April.
From 1989 to 2001 the race was named to commemorate the late clerk of the course John Hughes.
In April 2012 the race was won for the third consecutive year by Always Waining, trained by Peter Bowen and ridden by Tom O'Brien.[1]