Champion Bumper Preview, Tips, Runners & Trends (Cheltenham Festival)

2025 Champion Bumper Preview

The biggest national hunt flat race of the year where punters flock to back the representatives of twelve-time winner Willie Mullins at the Cheltenham racecourse. The Champion Bumper is a race for your trackers and a good source for future winners and many high class, the likes of Florida Pearl and Cue Card have won the Champion Bumper down the years.

Below we have previewed the Champion Bumper trends and statistics, are our racing tipsters supporting Willie Mullins in the race? Head over to the Cheltenham predictions to see if they are! Be sure to check out our recommended bookies for Cheltenham article before placing your bets on the Champion Bumper.

Champion Bumper Information:

• Champion Bumper Past Winners
• Champion Bumper Trainer Statistics
• Champion Bumper Jockey Statistics

To see which runners the OLBG racing tipsters are tipping throughout the card that includes this race, head over to the Cheltenham tips on the day of the race, do they agree with the runners on the trend shortlist or are they predicting other runners? We cover every race at the Cheltenham Festival and below you can find links to all of the races for each of Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday.

How competitive is the Champion Bumper market? When looking at the over-rounds for the last 20 renewals, the most competitive market was in 2019 when the race had an over-round of 121%. The race in 2007 was a race that was most in the bookie's favour with an over-round of 145%, whilst on average over the last 20 renewals of the Champion Bumper, the over-round has been 130%, which means the bookie expects to pay out £100 for every £130 which is bet.

Champion Bumper Trends:

• 2025 Champion Bumper Trends
• Champion Bumper Trend Analysis

Looking at the future form, is the winner worth following next time out? From the past 20 if you had followed the winner of the Champion Bumper next time out then you would have backed a total of 9 winners. Backing all 19 runners who have been out since to win at SP next time out, would have returned an LSP of +1.08. Remember to bookmark the racing tips page so you can get easy access to the OLBG racing picks daily.

The runner that holds the record over the past 20 renewals for the slowest time in the race was set in the 2024 renewal when Jasmin De Vaux from W P Mullins under the guidance of Mr P W Mullins, won in a time of 4:07.39, whilst at the other end of the spectrum, Silver Concorde, trained by D K Weld and ridden by Robbie McNamara set the quickest time of 3:43.40 in the 2014 renewal.

These are the top three quickest-run Champion Bumper over the last 20 renewals:

1. Silver Concorde (3:43.40) in 2014
2. Hairy Molly (3:46.70) in 2006
3. Champagne Fever (3:47.50) in 2012

Champion Bumper Past Winners

Here are the Champion Bumper past winners for the last 10 renewals. Each row details the year of the race, the horse which won along with the age & weight of the horse. The trainer of the horse at the time of winning the Champion Bumper as well as the jockey is also displayed along with the starting price the horse was sent off.

Where have the winning runners come from?

Here are the countries where the winning trainers of the Champion Bumper have been based:

• IRE: 16 winners with an additional 26 placings from 199 runners
• GB: 4 winners with an additional 14 placings from 233 runners
• FR: 0 winners with an additional 0 placings from 1 runner

Champion Bumper Trainer Statistics

The leading trainer in the Champion Bumper over the last 20 renewals is W P Mullins who has won the race nine times with those nine winners coming from Missed That (2005), Cousin Vinny (2008), Champagne Fever (2012), Briar Hill (2013), Relegate (2018), Ferny Hollow (2020), Sir Gerhard (2021), Facile Vega (2022) and Jasmin De Vaux (2024). The only other trainer to have recorded multiple wins in the Champion Bumper is Gordon Elliott (2 wins). There is one trainer who has not had the best of times in the Champion Bumper, Paul Nicholls has sent a total of 12 runners to the race without recording any wins.

Here are some of the top Champion Bumper trainer statistics over the last 20 renewals (R = Runners, W = Winners, P = Places including winners, Win LSP is based on 1pt Win and EW LSP is based on 0.5pt Win & 0.5pt Place):

Champion Bumper Jockey Statistics

The leading jockey in the Champion Bumper over the last 20 renewals is Mr P W Mullins who has won the race four times with those four winners coming from Cousin Vinny (2008), Champagne Fever (2012), Facile Vega (2022) and Jasmin De Vaux (2024). The only other jockey to have recorded multiple wins in the Champion Bumper is Mr J J Codd (2 wins). There is one jockey who has not had the best of times in the Champion Bumper, Danny Mullins has ridden a total of 10 runners to the race without recording any wins.

Here are some of the top Champion Bumper jockey statistics over the last 20 renewals (R = Runners, W = Winners, P = Places including winners, Win LSP is based on 1pt Win and EW LSP is based on 0.5pt Win & 0.5pt Place):

2025 Champion Bumper Trends

Favourites finishing positions (oldest to latest): 1, 12, 8, 3, 3, 20, 6, 2, (2, 7), 2, 1, 7, 9, 4, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 3

The percentage shown is the percentage of the total number of runners who fell under that factor. High percentages are less appealing than lower ones as you would expect them to do well.

• 20 / 20 (64%) - Beaten no more 1l (LTO)
• 20 / 20 (68%) - No bigger than 40/1
• 20 / 20 (75%) - Achieved an RPR of 110+ (Last Win)
• 20 / 20 (76%) - Not on GD/GF/STD-SLW/STD (Last Win)
• 20 / 20 (77%) - Within the first 16 of the market
• 20 / 20 (81%) - Break of 17 - 144 days (Last Win)
• 20 / 20 (81%) - Won by at least 1l (Last Win)
• 20 / 20 (81%) - Not BL/BR/CH in colour
• 20 / 20 (81%) - Won within last 1 starts
• 20 / 20 (84%) - Not in FRA/SCO/WAL (Last Win)
• 20 / 20 (85%) - Not in a Cl2-3 (Last Win)
• 20 / 20 (85%) - Not on GD/GF/STD-SLW/STD (LTO)
• 20 / 20 (86%) - Had 1 - 3 wins (180 Days)
• 20 / 20 (88%) - No more than -7lbs (Vs Max Weight)
• 20 / 20 (88%) - Highest Won is not Cl3

Remember to use the trends listed above along with the Cheltenham racing predictions to see if you can find the winner of the Champion Bumper. If there is anything that you do not understand in this blog, please leave a comment or head over to the Horse Racing Terms and Abbreviations article which is available in the OLBG Betting School section.

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Champion Bumper Trend Analysis

The worst performing factor that has failed to produce a single winner is when runners last win was 2 starts ago, when backing these the trend shows a record of 0-69.

The course which has produced the most winners of the Champion Bumper is Leopardstown, there has been a total number of 5 winners of this race who ran at Leopardstown last time out. The next best courses which have produced the second most winners are Naas and Fairyhouse, there has been a total number of 3 winners from each of those courses.

The race is open to both sexes with the Male runners having produced a total of 18 winners from a total of 408 runners whilst the Female runners have produced 2 winners from a total of 25 runners.

These are the stallions whose offspring have not produced a winner of the Champion Bumper despite multiple attempts:

• Oscar (0 Wins from 11 runners)
• Milan (0 Wins from 10 runners)
• Beneficial (0 Wins from 8 runners)
• Martaline (0 Wins from 7 runners)
• Yeats (0 Wins from 6 runners)

Looking at the winning odds over the last 20 renewals, the biggest-priced winner was Cue Card in 2010, winning for Colin Tizzard at odds of 40/1 under the guidance of Joe Tizzard. Looking at the runners at the head of the market over the last 20 renewals there have been 4 winning favourites in the race. Remember to bookmark the best racing tipsters page so you can get easy access to the best OLBG racing tipsters.

Schedule for Tuesday at the Cheltenham Festival

Prepare for the ROAR of the Cheltenham Festival on the opening day when the tape goes up for the Supreme Novices Hurdle, the feature on Tuesday is the Champion Hurdle.

Schedule for Wednesday at the Cheltenham Festival

The dust has settled on the opening day of the Cheltenham Festival and now on to day two. The feature on the second day is the Queen Mother Champion Chase. We also have the cross country scheduled on Wednesday, a race like Marmite, some love it and some don't!

Schedule for Thursday at the Cheltenham Festival

Halfway through the festival and onto day three where the Stayers Hurdle is the feature race. A hurdle race to test the stamina and see how can last best up the Cheltenham hill.

Schedule for Friday at the Cheltenham Festival

The final day of the festival and feature race that we have all been waiting for, the Cheltenham Gold Cup in which the Irish have been fairly dominant in recent years.