Welsh Grand National at Chepstow 2024

While not carrying quite the same prestige as the Grand National itself at Aintree, along with the Scottish version the Welsh Grand National is in its own right a huge race and is often won, either before or after Liverpool, by horses who also contest the big one in April.

Run every year on December 27th at Chepstow Racecourse, it is the Monmouthshire track’s flagship race and carries a prize fund of some £150,000. A competitive field is guaranteed every year which makes this event a huge betting race, runners challenged with a 3¾-mile trip and 23 fences along the way.

Having been on the schedule since 1895 this Grade 3 handicap event is one of the oldest and most prestigious anywhere in the UK jump racing, with past winners including Corbiere, Cool Ground, Master Oats, Earth Summit, Bindaree, Synchronised and Native River.