Great Yorkshire Chase Betting Odds & Racecards

The Great Yorkshire Chase Weekend is always a big highlight of the National Hunt racing calendar, with Doncaster Racecourse hosting a big race meeting which is scheduled to take place on Friday 23 January and Saturday 24 January. There are some big races and lots of contenders, with the Great Yorkshire Chase taking pride of place.

Virgin Bet are the sponsors of a race meeting where lots of racegoers are able to attend at Doncaster and place their bets on different contenders. The big race takes place over three miles, with Ziga Boy having landed two victories in this encounter, while Windsor Avenue, Cooper’s Cross and Annual Invictus among the recent winners.

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When it comes to January race meetings in the UK, there are none bigger than the Great Yorkshire Chase weekend. The action gets started on Friday 24 January, with seven races on the racecard and the first race takes place at 12.25pm. Doncaster Racecourse plays host to a meeting where we’ll see plenty of Cheltenham Festival contenders lining up.

,p>Whether you’re attending Town Moor in the flesh or alternatively watching on TV or through a bookmaker’s Bet and Watch service, you can enjoy the Doncaster action and the actual Great Yorkshire Chase was first run in 1948. It has previously been known as the Sky Bet Chase and is known as a Premier Handicap.

This is a three-mile encounter where stamina is a key quality and we saw a ten-year-old landing a victory in three of four renewals between 2019 and 2022. However, in more recent years, there was an eight-year-old winner in the form of Cooper’s Cross before a success for the nine-year-old Annual Invictus.

There will be a celebration of all things Yorkshire at Doncaster Racecourse when the Great Yorkshire Chase weekend takes place, with a sum total of fourteen races being held. This offers numerous ways to place a bet on the action, with the bookies at Racing-Odds.com offering the best prices and there’s the chance to get extra each-way places.

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Great Yorkshire Chase Weekend Tips

The Great Yorkshire Chase Weekend will take place at the end of January, with there being a Doncaster racecard on Saturday 27 January and Sunday 28 January. This includes the Sky Bet Chase which is run over three miles and the going is generally soft due to the weather conditions. Previous winners of this encounter includes Ok Corral, Takingrisks and Windsor Avenue.

Ziga Boy was also a double winner of the race in 2015 and 2016, with racegoers enjoying the chance to bet on a number of high-profile races during the course of the two days. The Yorkshire Rose Mares’ Hurdle, River Don Novices’ Hurdle and Lightning Novices’ Chase are all quality affairs, with Epatante having been a recent winner of the former.

The Cob, Mahler Mission and Maximilian are horses that have achieved victory in the River Don Novices’ Hurdle, with runners such as Shishkin, Third Time Lucki and Tommy’s Oscar having all been in the winners’ enclosure when it comes to the Lightning Novices’ Chase. The Grade Two races are all high-profile and there are lots of betting odds available.

Beyond the headline races, there’s also the chance to get extra places for each-way bets on many of the Great Yorkshire Chase meeting. There can be price boosts for some of the favourites that are running, with customers able access live streams in order to watch high-definition coverage of the action.

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The Sky Bet Handicap Chase will take place on Saturday 28 January, with the runners and riders looking to follow in the footsteps of recent winners. OK Corral landed the spoils in 2020, while Takingrisks was able to oblige in 2021 and it was Windsor Avenue that tasted success twelve months ago.

It’s usually a wide open betting race, with the Sky Bet Chase taking place at 3.20pm, with seven races on the card for each day. Preceding the big race is the Yorkshire Rose Mares Hurdle and Albert Bartlett River Don Novices’ Hurdle, with seven notable races taking place on Friday 27 January.

The Sky Bet Chase was formerly known as the Yorkshire Chase and it’s a stamina sapping three mile encounter, with the ground usually being heavy at this time of year. It’s often a case of judging the weights and aiming to establish which runners have been the most favourably handicapped.

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The two-day Sky Bet Chase meeting at Doncaster in January is one of just a few high quality events between the Welsh National and the Cheltenham Festival. It essentially revolves around the eponymous feature race, the Sky Bet Handicap Chase, which was once entitled the Great Yorkshire Chase.

Taking place over a Friday and a Saturday towards the end of January, this Doncaster meeting has a number of other intriguing looking races on its cards aside from the biggest race, including a trio of usually competitive Grade 2 races on the Saturday.

This time of year in South Yorkshire is not known for its clement weather, so taking account of potentially challenging conditions could be prudent for those looking to bet on any of these races. It will also pay dividends to study our Sky Bet Chase odds comparison, as ever, for the best betting odds from top bookmakers, whether on the day of the race or for ante post bets.

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