Grand Annual Handicap Chase winners and results
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Run in 2027 as the Debenhams Johnny Henderson Grand Annual Challenge Cup, a handicap race over 2m.
The 2027 Grand Annual Handicap Chase is due off at 4.40pm, Wednesday 17 March 2027. Below is every result in the archive, from 2022 to 2026.
| Year | Winner | SP | Jockey | Trainer | 2nd | 3rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Martator | 66/1 | Charlie Deutsch | Venetia Williams | Jazzy Matty | Break My Soul |
| 2025 | Jazzy Matty | 15/2 | Danny Gilligan | Cian Collins | Unexpected Party | Midnight It Is |
| 2024 | Unexpected Party | 12/1 | Harry Skelton | Dan Skelton | Libberty Hunter | Path D'oroux |
| 2023 | Maskada | 22/1 | Darragh O'Keeffe | Henry de Bromhead | Dinoblue | Global Citizen |
| 2022 | Global Citizen | 28/1 | Kielan Woods | Ben Pauling | Andy Dufresne | Frero Banbou |
Grand Annual Handicap Chase trends
Two miles round Cheltenham for handicap chasers, run at a pace that leaves the form book looking untidy afterwards. No winner in the last five years started shorter than 15/2, and the 2026 running went to Martator at 66/1 for Venetia Williams and Charlie Deutsch.
Before that came Maskada at 22/1 and Global Citizen at 28/1, so this is consistently one of the best races at the meeting for anyone prepared to take on the market. The reason is simple enough: a large field of exposed handicappers going quickly over the minimum trip leaves little between them on ratings, and the race often turns on a mistake three fences out.
Grand Annual Handicap Chase winners on file: Martator, Jazzy Matty, Unexpected Party, Maskada, Global Citizen. The market has been a poor guide here, with only 0 of the last 5 winners going off favourite. The biggest-priced winner in that time was Martator at 66/1 in 2026.
Festival form
1 of the 5 winners on file had already won at the Cheltenham Festival before taking this race.
- Jazzy Matty (2025) had won the 2023 Juvenile Handicap Hurdle.
Winners without an earlier win listed here had not won at the Festival since 2022, which is as far back as this archive currently runs.
See the full card for each Festival on the results by year pages, or the Ladies Day page for how the rest of the day went.
Compiled and checked by <your name>. Last updated 28 October 2026. Spotted something wrong? Tell us and we will fix it.