2025 Cheltenham November Meeting: Race Trends & Analysis

I’m still very much in full ‘taking a break‘ mode…

However, I’m not one who finds completely switching off all that easy to come by…

Knowing that, I had always planned to post up the odd piece of trends/stats analysis during my down time, as well as the occasional PodBlast episode, just to keep the old racing brain going at least at the minimum levels…

And I’m delivering BOTH in this post… a splash of Race Trends Analysis for the two main races at the 2025 Cheltenham November Meeting (The Paddy Power Gold Cup & The Greatwood Hurdle) as well as a PodBlast episode for the Saturday action of the meeting…

I’ll start with those Race Trends…

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2025 Cheltenham November Meeting: Race Trends

⭕ PADDY POWER GOLD CUP

⌚ 2:20 🗓️ Saturday 15th November

📝 2m4f Handicap Chase | Class 1 Premier Handicap | 4yo+

Race Trends…

✅ 12/12 0-2 Previous Handicap Chase wins

✅ 12/12 0-3 Total Handicap wins

✅ 12/12 Ran in a Class 1 or Class 2 over 2m3f to 2m6f LTO

✅ 12/12 Last win came in a Class 1, 2 or 3 race over 2m1f to 2m7f

✅ 12/12 Aged 9yo or younger

2025 Trends Qualifiers…

🏇 THEATRE NATIVE (5 out of 5 trends passed)

🏇 PANIC ATTACK (5/5)

🏇 Il Ridoto (4 out of 5 trends passed)

🏇 Coming Up Easy (4/5)

🏇 Vincenzo (4/5)

🏇 Conyers Hill (4/5)

🏇 Es Perfecto (4/5)

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⭕ GREATWOOD HURDLE

⌚ 3:30 🗓️ Sunday 16th November

📝 2m 1/2f Handicap Hurdle | Class 1 Premier Handicap | 3yo+

Race Trends…

✅ 12/12 1st or 2nd on 1 of last 3 starts

✅ 12/12 aged 4yo-7yo

✅ 11/12 10 or less Hurdle starts

✅ 11/12 0-2 Handicap Hurdle starts

✅ 11/12 0-6 Total Handicap starts

✅ 11/12 Won 1 of their last 4 starts

2025 Trends Qualifiers…

🏇 SERIOUS CHALLENGE (6 out of 6 trends passed)

🏇 CELTIC DINO (6/6)

🏇 CASTLE CARROCK (6/6)

🏇 RUBBER BALL (6/6)

🏇 DEDICATED HERO (6/6)

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📊 Race Trends sourced from HorseRaceBase…

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2025 Cheltenham November Meeting: Saturday PodBlast Coverage

Tony Mac and I have dug deep into the Saturday of the November Meeting and given three of the races our usual PodBlast coverage…

You can listen to that coverage by hitting the play button (▶️) on the media player below…

And you can also head to the main Racing PodBlast site and listen to the latest episode there…

>>>The Racing PodBlast

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In other news…

A fair few of you have been in touch asking when the doors to the 2025/26 NTF National Hunt service will be open…

I think I’ve responded to you all (much apologies if I managed to miss anyone)… but if I have failed to respond to you or you are also wondering when the doors will be open…

I’m taking a break for (at least) a couple of months before starting up the next run of the service… it will likely be early 2026 before I get things up and running again… although I’ll still have the odd free blog/free email and PodBlast episode posted out sporadically… but… no full NTF Members service until we hit 2026 👍

If you are not already on the FREE NTF list then click the link below to hook up and make sure you don’t miss out on things…

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And if you want to have a spin through all previous NTF Free Blog posts then head to the main Blog page HERE>>>

Cheers and best of luck with your Cheltenham November Meeting betting

Ben (NTF)

p.s. there’s a very interesting article over on GeeGeez.co.uk looking at front-runner biases in Handicap Chases, well worth 10-minutes of your times, some excellent info in the post…

>>>Top 10 Front-Running Biases in Handicap Chases