2025 Punchestown Champion Novice Betting Odds at Punchestown racecourse

Tuesday, 29 April 2025

There are four horses trading at single figure betting odds for the Champion Novice Chase where the runners and riders compete over three miles and one furlong. It’s another exciting encounter at Punchestown, with Ballyburn among the favourites to land a victory. The seven-year-old could be battling it out with Lecky Watson when it comes to top honours.

The latter has scored a consecutive hat-trick of victories, with Dancing City also entered and the horse fell in his last encounter. Impaire Et Passe has won three of his previous four races and it looks set to be Willie Mullins domination. Fun Fun Fun and Stellar Story are trading at bigger prices and each-way possibilities.

2025 Champion Novice Chase Betting Tips

Ballyburn is a classy operator who is trading as the marginal favourite when it comes to the Champion Novice Chase. The seven-year-old was strong favourite in the Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase at Cheltenham, although the horse could only manage a fifth-placed finish. Perhaps he will bounce back here if the runner is able to produce a clean round of jumping.

Lecky Watson was sent off as a 20/1 shot in the same race before landing a victory and you won’t find anything like this price for the Punchestown encounter. The seven-year-old has now landed a hat-trick of wins for Willie Mullins this term, with the horse also having won at this track already this term. That victory happened in January.

Dancing City fell at Aintree earlier this month when tumbling in the Mildmay Novices’ Chase and that came after a disappointing showing at Cheltenham. There was previously a win at Naas at the end of January and there was also a success at Punchestown in December. The horse’s track record suggests that the horse could go well at a price.

Impaire Et Passe has won three of his four outings this term and is another Mullins runner with a solid chance of victory. There was a victory at Aintree in early April in the Manifesto Novices’ Chase. There was also a third-placed finish in the Ladbrokes Novices Chase and that came after a December success at Limerick.