Red Rum Handicap Chase 2015
The Red Rum Handicap Chase is a handicap chase run on the opening day of the Grand National meeting over a distance of two miles.
The race remembers the Ginger McCain trained legendary three time Grand National winner.
In terms of its conditions it is effectively the Aintree equivalent of the Cheltenham Festival’s Grand Annual Chase. 8 of the last 16 winners ran in the Cheltenham race.
The 2013 winner the Paul Nicholls trained, Edgardo Sol ran at Cheltenham but had a campaign mixing hurdles and chases and actually ran in the County Hurdle. The horse ended a 20 horse, 14 year, losing run for Nicholls in the race.
Red Rum Handicap Chase Winners 2003-2014
| Year | Form | Horse | LTO | Age | OR | Wt | Jockey | Trainer |
| 2014 | 10246 | Parsnip Pete | 14 | 8 | 134 | 10-10 | Paddy Brennan | Tom George |
| 2013 | 11663 | Oiseau De Nuit (FR) | 20 | 11 | 149 | 11-11 | Brendan Powell | Colin Tizzard |
| 2012 | 311345 | Edgardo Sol (FR) | 27 | 5 | 143 | 11-00 | Ruby Walsh | P F Nicholls |
| 2011 | 1U0 | Silk Drum (IRE) | 40 | 6 | 141 | 9-9 | P Gallagher | H Johnson |
| 2010 | 0401P | Chaninbar (FR) | 26 | 7 | 135 | 10-8 | Sean Quinlan | Milton Harris |
| 2009 | 23F21 | Oh Crick (FR) | 20 | 6 | 139 | 11-1 | R Thornton | Alan King |
| 2008 | F3020 | Stan (NZ) | 54 | 9 | 129 | 9-9 | A Coleman | Ms V Williams |
| 2007 | 2P300 | Bambi De LOrme (FR) | 27 | 8 | 130 | 10-2 | D Elsworth | Ian Williams |
| 2006 | 22121 | Jacks Craic (IRE) | 12 | 7 | 134 | 10-2 | Tony Evans | John Spearing |
| 2005 | 32121 | Fota Island (IRE) | 20 | 9 | 142 | 11-10 | Tony McCoy | Mouse Morris |
| 2004 | 1221F | Tidour (FR) | 16 | 8 | 135 | 10-11 | Tom Doyle | Paul Webber |
| 2003 | 2U24F | Golden Alpha (IRE) | 21 | 9 | 135 | 10-13 | Tony McCoy | Martin Pipe |
Red Rum Chase Winners Profile
Looking at the profile of the winners above we might expect the winners to fit these trends:
Weight: 9 of the alst 10 winners carried less than 11st 1lb to success
Last Time Out: All 10 ran between 12 and 54 days before the race with just 3 ( and none since 2009) winning that race.
Rating: 8 of the last 10 winners were rated between 134 and 143
Age: 9/10 and (24 of the last 26 ) winners were aged nine or less. Novices have won 7 of the last 12.
Price: There have been 2 winning favourites in the last decade finishing 1 3 7 4 8 7 4 1 P 3 over the decade. The winners market position was 1 5 3 0 2 0 6 1 0 5 in that time i.e 7 out of 10 came from first six in the betting.
