Champion Bumper recent winners

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by Cheltenham Festival Staff

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CHELTENHAM, ENGLAND - MARCH 16: Former champion flat jockey Kieren Fallon rides Refinement (C) in The Weatherbys Champion Bumper at Cheltenham Racecourse during the second day of the annual National Hunt Festival on March 16, 2005 in Cheltenham, England. (Photo by Julian Herbert/Getty Images)

The Weatherbys Champion Bumper Open NH Flat Race (5:15pm) is a Class A Grade 1 flat race run over two miles and about half a furlong. It is open to horses aged between 4 and 6 years old. The total prize fund in 2011 was £60,000.

Recent Winners

The Champion Bumper is the only flat race run at the Festival and as well as some of the most exciting young horses in training the race now also attracts some of the best jockeys from the Flat, including Jamie Spencer who won the 2002 renewal on board Pizarro.

Since 1992, 11 Champion Bumper winners have returned to the Festival the next year, three of whom won their Festival race (Montelado won the Supreme Novice Hurdle, Florida Pearl won the RSA Chase and Monsignor won what is now the Neptune Investment Novices' Hurdle) and two others were placed.

With the future in mind it is also worth keeping an eye not just on the placed horses but also on some of the horses further back in the field, as the race is bound to throw up some future big race winners. Trabolgen, French Holly, Iris’s Gift, Thisthatandtother, Rhinestone Cowboy, Wichita Lineman, Albertas Run and Fiveforthree to name but a few, were all beaten in their renewal of the Bumper but subsequently went on to make big names for themselves over hurdles or fences.

2011 Cheltenian

2010 Cue Card

2009 Dunguib

2008 Cousin Vinny

2007 Cork All Star

2006 Hairy Molly

2005 Missed That

2004 Total Enjoyment

2003 Liberman

2002 Pizarro

2000 Joe Cullen

1999 Monsignor

1998 Alexander Banquet

1997 Florida Pearl

1996 Wither Or Which

1995 Dato Star

1994 Mucklemeg

1993 Rhythm Section

1992 Montelado

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