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The Cesarewitch Handicap is run at Newmarket on Saturday 10 October 2026: a Heritage Handicap over 2m 2f for 3yo+, first run in 1839. The off time and the final field are confirmed when the runners are declared.
This extreme staying handicap is a true test of stamina for a huge field. Recent renewals increasingly favour dual-purpose horses and jumps-yard stayers. Chally Chute, Premiere Ligne, and Boxing Great won this autumn's trials.
This page leads with what the results archive says about races like this one, then the field, the trends from the roll of honour, and where to bet.
In this guide
- What the results archive says about races like this
- The field
- Trends and the roll of honour
- Where to bet
- Frequently asked questions
For the off time and how to watch on television, see the Cesarewitch Handicap raceday guide. For the course itself, the Newmarket betting guide.
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What the results archive says about races like this
The archive behind the racing results pages holds every result since 1 June, with the model's card for each race beside it. Sixteen of those races look like the Cesarewitch Handicap: Flat handicaps over two miles to two miles and four furlongs with at least twelve runners, at Curragh, Down Royal, Galway, Goodwood, Limerick, Navan, Newcastle, Pontefract, Royal Ascot, Tramore and York. This is what they show.
| Measure | Races like this | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| SP favourite won | 7 of 14 (50%) | races with a single clear favourite |
| Winner sent off at double-figure odds | 4 of 16 (25%) | winners with a starting price |
| The model's top pick won | 2 of 13 (15%) | races the model priced |
| SP book over a fair book, average | 33.5% | 16 races with every runner priced |
| The same, every race in the archive | 19.1% | 4,847 races |
The favourite won about half of these races, suggesting a tendency for well-fancied runners to perform strongly. However, a quarter of winners were double-figure prices, indicating that outsiders can upset the form. The model's top pick rarely won them, and the bookmaker's margin was well above average. This is a small sample, so caution is advised as patterns can change quickly.
Across every race it has priced, the model's top pick wins 24.1% of the time (track record). The SP book is the sum of every runner's chance implied by its starting price; the amount over a fair book is the bookmaker's margin, explained on what betting costs.
This autumn's trials
Friends Of The Curragh Irish Cesarewitch (0-110) (Premier Handicap), Curragh, 27 September (30 ran): won by Chally Chute, trained by R O'Sullivan. The model's top pick, Valiancy, finished 28th. The StableBet Rating's top-rated runner, The Reverend, finished 18th.
Friends Of The Curragh Irish Cesarewitch (0-110) (Premier Handicap)
Results from the site's nightly results run for Sunday, 27 September 2026, source sporting_life. Starting prices are industry SP.
Turners Cesarewitch Trial Handicap (GBBPlus Race), Newmarket, 19 September (six ran): won by Premiere Ligne, trained by H Morrison. The model's top pick, Gooloogong, finished 5th.
Turners Cesarewitch Trial Handicap (GBBPlus Race)
Results from the site's nightly results run for Saturday, 19 September 2026, source sporting_life. Starting prices are industry SP.
Grant Thornton Ulster Cesarewitch Handicap, Down Royal, 4 September (thirteen ran): won by Boxing Great, the SP favourite, trained by K Thornton. The model's top pick, Golden Temple, finished 9th.
Grant Thornton Ulster Cesarewitch Handicap
Results from the site's nightly results run for Friday, 4 September 2026, source sporting_life. Starting prices are industry SP.
None of this is a forecast. Sixteen races is a small sample, and a pattern this size can turn over within a season.
The field
The runners for the Cesarewitch Handicap are not declared yet, so this page names no field and quotes no prices. Horses with a run in this autumn's trials above, such as Chally Chute, Premiere Ligne and Boxing Great, carry recent form over a staying trip in a big field; whether any of them line up is settled at declarations.
On the morning of the race the AI Lab publishes the model's estimated chance and the StableBet Rating for every declared runner on the day's card and the racecards. Read them against the table above: in races like this the model's top pick has won 2 of 13, so a top pick here is a lead to check, not a verdict.
Trends and the roll of honour
Cesarewitch Handicap: Recent Winners
Heritage Handicap · 2m 2f · 3yo+ · Newmarket · October
| Year | Winner | Age | SP | Jockey | Trainer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Beylerbeyi | 5 | 7/1 | Billy Loughnane | Ian Williams |
| 2024 | Alphonse Le Grande | 5 | 33/1 | Jamie Powell | Cathy O'Leary |
| 2023 | The Shunter | 10 | 14/1 | James Doyle | Emmet Mullins |
| 2022 | Run For Oscar | 7 | — | David Egan | Charles Byrnes |
| 2021 | Buzz | 7 | — | Oisin Murphy | Nicky Henderson |
| 2020 | Great White Shark | 6 | — | Jason Watson | Willie Mullins |
| 2019 | Stratum | 6 | — | Jason Watson | Willie Mullins |
| 2018 | Low Sun | 5 | — | Seamie Heffernan | Willie Mullins |
| 2017 | Withhold | 4 | — | Silvestre de Sousa | Roger Charlton |
| 2016 | Sweet Selection | 4 | — | Silvestre de Sousa | Hughie Morrison |
Trends
- A stayers' marathon increasingly won by National Hunt / dual-purpose yards (Mullins x3, plus Henderson, Hobbs, Byrnes, King).
- An older horses' race - every recent winner aged 4-10.
Source-verified from official records. Last checked 2026-06-29.
The trends
Winning age
- 7yo
- 33%
- 5yo
- 25%
- 4yo
- 17%
- 6yo
- 17%
Age known for 12 of 12 winners (2014–2025)
Trainers & jockeys
- Most successful trainer
- Willie Mullins (3)
- Most successful jockey
- Jason Watson (2)
12 runnings (2014–2025)
What the roll of honour shows:
- A stayers' marathon increasingly won by National Hunt / dual-purpose yards (Mullins x3, plus Henderson, Hobbs, Byrnes, King).
- An older horses' race, every recent winner aged 4-10.
Jumps yards dominate: Willie Mullins won three in a row; Emmet Mullins, Charles Byrnes, Nicky Henderson, Alan King, Philip Hobbs also recent winners.
This is a historical pattern-match, not a tip and not a model output: it narrows a field, and no trend on its own beats the bookmaker's margin.
Where to bet
With no field yet, the useful work is choosing where to bet rather than what on: the margin and the place terms are the two things a punter can control before the runners are known.
In races like this the SP book averaged 33.5% over a fair book, against 19.1% across the whole archive, so every price in this field carries more margin than an average race. Which bookmaker builds the least margin into its prices is measured every day:
| Bookmaker | Races | Overround | Takeout |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 SmarketsSBK | 1049 | 15.58% | 13.48% |
| 2 BetTom | 936 | 23.27% | 18.87% |
| 3 Bet365 | 1338 | 23.98% | 19.34% |
| 4 LiveScore Bet shared feed | 998 | 24.23% | 19.51% |
| = Virgin Bet shared feed | 999 | 24.28% | 19.54% |
| 6 William Hill | 1379 | 25.67% | 20.43% |
| 7 7Bet | 1080 | 26.53% | 20.97% |
| = Unibet | 1373 | 26.64% | 21.04% |
| 9 Quinn Bet | 1363 | 27.01% | 21.26% |
| = Hollywood Bets | 1362 | 27.01% | 21.27% |
| 11 Betfred | 1303 | 27.34% | 21.47% |
| = Paddy Power | 1411 | 27.44% | 21.53% |
| 13 10 Bet | 1286 | 27.80% | 21.75% |
| 14 Star Sports | 1415 | 28.19% | 21.99% |
| 15 Coral shared feed | 1417 | 28.78% | 22.35% |
| = Midnite | 1381 | 28.79% | 22.36% |
| = Ladbrokes shared feed | 1418 | 28.89% | 22.41% |
| = Boyle Sports | 1408 | 29.04% | 22.51% |
| 19 Bet Victor shared feed | 989 | 29.39% | 22.72% |
| = Betano shared feed | 988 | 29.51% | 22.78% |
| 21 Dragon Bet | 1420 | 29.98% | 23.06% |
| = BetWright | 1420 | 29.99% | 23.07% |
| 23 Betfair Sportsbook | 1412 | 30.39% | 23.30% |
| 24 BresBet | 217 | 32.04% | 24.27% |
| 25 BetMGM | 1420 | 33.35% | 25.01% |
First pre-race book of each day, 2026-08-27 to 2026-10-06, across 1422 races every listed book priced in full. Exchanges and spread firms are excluded: they do not quote comparable win odds. Overround is how far past a fair book the prices sit; takeout is the share of stakes the book keeps. On 39 days of data, books marked = are level with the one above rather than behind it. Books marked "shared feed" are one half of a pair that does not price independently, so there are fewer independent books here than rows.
An each-way bet in a handicap with sixteen or more runners pays a quarter of the odds on the first four places as standard; some bookmakers add extra places on the big Saturday handicaps and may cut the fraction when they do, so read the place count and the fraction together. The each-way calculator works out both halves of the bet.
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