Native Upmanship Novice Chase
| 2025 | ||
| Common Practice | High Class Hero | Drumgill |
| Previous years | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | ||
| Mister Policeman | Thecompanysergeant | Lucid Dreams |
| 2023 | ||
| Flame Bearer | Upping The Anti | Sole Pretender |
| 2022 | ||
| French Dynamite | Ciel De Neige | The Little Yank |
| 2021 | ||
| I'm A Game Changer | Whatsnotoknow | Zarkareva |
| 2020-2017 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | ||
| Zero Ten | Dunvegan | Emily Moon |
| 2019 | ||
| Cubomania | Jetz | Duca De Thaix |
| 2018 | ||
| Castlegrace Paddy | Jett | Tombstone |
| 2017 | ||
| Great Field | Hurricane Ben | Alamein |
The Native Upmanship Novice Chase is a Grade 3 National Hunt novice chase in Ireland which is open to horses aged five years or older. It is run at Thurles Racecourse over a distance of about 2 miles and 2 furlongs (3,621 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in March.
The race was first run in 2017 as the Pierce Molony Memorial Novice Chase in honour of the former manager and owner of Thurles Racecourse.[1]
It was awarded Grade 3 status in 2020.[2]
Records
Leading jockey : (2 wins)
- Darragh O'Keeffe - I'm A Game Changer (2021), French Dynamite (2022)
- Paul Townend - Flame Bearer (2023), Mister Policeman (2024)
Leading trainer: (3 wins)
- Willie Mullins - Great Field (2017), Flame Bearer (2023), Mister Policeman (2024)
Winners
| Year | Winner | Age | Jockey | Trainer |
| 2017 | Great Field | 6 | Jody McGarvey | Willie Mullins |
| 2018 | Castlegrace Paddy | 7 | Andrew Lynch | Pat Fahy |
| 2019 | Cubomania | 6 | Davy Russell | Gordon Elliott |
| 2020 | Zero Ten | 7 | David Mullins | Emmet Mullins |
| 2021 | I'm A Game Changer | 9 | Darragh O'Keefe | Andrew McNamara |
| 2022 | French Dynamite | 9 | Darragh O'Keefe | Mouse Morris |
| 2023 | Flame Bearer | 8 | Paul Townend | Willie Mullins |
| 2024 | Mister Policeman | 6 | Paul Townend | Willie Mullins |
| 2025 | Common Practice | 6 | Simon Torrens | Joseph O'Brien |
See also
References
- ^ "Death of Pierce Molony". Irish Independent. 28 January 2015. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
- ^ "Enhancements to the National Hunt Pattern Programme". Ballinrobe Racecourse. 16 August 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2020.