Tingle Creek Chase betting with William Hill

Sandown’s first Grade 1 of the National Hunt campaign is always a treat to savour and you can count on William Hill to have all the angles covered ahead of the Tingle Creek Chase.

Established in 1979, the race was named in honour of Tingle Creek, a popular National Hunt racehorse in the 1970s, with a good record in races at Sandown Park.

The Tingle Creek Chase fell to legendary trainer Fred Winter three times in its first four runnings, and Richard Dunwoody’s record of five wins in the saddle between 1985 and 1996 is unlikely to ever be matched.

Open to four-year-olds and older, this 2m test over 13 fences usually proves a popular stop-off point on the way to a Queen Mother Champion Chase challenge at the Cheltenham Festival, with many recent Tingle Creek Chase winners doubling up in the Cotswolds.

You know the National Hunt campaign is really starting to hot up when the chilly December Saturday at Sandown comes along, and William Hill will have all the Tingle Creek Chase betting you need to get stuck in.

Trainers to watch in the Tingle Creek Chase betting

The shadow of Paul Nicholls looms large over this race, with the Gloucestershire native breaking double figures for Tingle Creek Chase triumphs courtesy of Politologue in 2017, after a three-year absence from the winners’ circle.

Given the race had not reached its 30th anniversary prior to Politologue’s half-length victory over Fox Norton - the 7/2 second favourite besting Colin Tizzard’s 8/13 hotpot - Nicholls’ Tingle Creek Chase record is something to behold.

Kauto Star, Twist Magic and Master Minded – all French-bred geldings – account for six of Nicholls’ haul, bagging two apiece, with Flagship Uberalles, Cenkos and Dodging Bullets making up the numbers.

Nicky Henderson will never come close to matching his great rival’s Tingle Creek Chase haul, but the veteran is a multiple winner of this Grade 1 thanks to Sprinter Sacre in 2012 and Altior six years later.

Gary Moore saddled Sire De Grugy to Tingle Creek Chase victories in 2013 and 2015, and the Brighton handler has seen Ar Mad run big races in defeat.

Willie Mullins landed the Tingle Creek Chase at the first attempt with Un De Sceaux in 2016, but the multiple Grade 1 winner couldn’t repeat the trick two years later off the back of a 228-day break.

Jockeys to watch in the Tingle Creek Chase odds

Barry Geraghty was in the hotseat for both of Moscow Flyer’s Tingle Creek Chase victories all the way back in 2003 and 2004, and the County Meath horseman took this prize again in 2012 aboard Sprinter Sacre.

Geraghty hasn’t picked up too many Tingle Creek Chase rides in recent campaigns, but the veteran Grade 1 specialist is one to keep an eye on during the twilight of his career.

Jamie Moore steered Sire De Grugy to victory for his father Gary in 2013 and 2015, with the trio coming up short by just a length behind Un De Sceaux a year later when hunting a Tingle Creek Chase treble.

Nico de Boinville’s only previous ride prior to landing the race with Altior in 2018 was aboard NIcky Henderson’s 7/1 shot Josses Hill three years earlier, finishing last, while Harry Cobden’s 2017 victory on Politologue came in the Somerset rider’s first Tingle Creek Chase.

Cobden’s predecessor as Paul Nicholls’ number-one jockey, Sam Twiston-Davies, took the Tingle Creek Chase on Dodging Bullets in 2014 en route to Queen Mother Champion Chase success at Cheltenham the following spring.

Tingle Creek Chase betting trends to follow

Previous experience of Sandown appears to have a significant bearing on Tingle Creek Chase success, with the majority of recent winners boasting at least one run around the Surrey track in their back catalogue, and around half tasting victory in those tussles.

Favourites and joint-favourites have taken the Tingle Creek Chase more often than not in recent runnings, with almost all winners coming from the top three in the betting at the off.

Over the past decade or so, around half of Tingle Creek Chase winners were successful in their last race, with practically all previously claiming victory at least three times over the big obstacles.

Five-year-olds Master Minded, Twist Magic, Kauto Star and Flagship Uberalles – all winners for Nicholls – bucked the trend of older horses taking the Tingle Creek Chase, but none of the young pretenders since have repeated the feat, with horses aged 6-8 dominating.

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