Must-See 2025 Eider Chase Trends To Help Find The Saturday Newcastle Winner

Stamina will be the order of the day in the feature race at Newcastle this Saturday – so to help narrow down the field Andy Newton is back with his key Eider Chase trends for 2025 – a race which is run over a gruelling 4m 1 1/2f,

Then, once the final Eider Chase runners are out, you can apply these trends to the field – putting history on your side and highlighting the horses with the best profiles based on past winners.

Eider Chase Trends Over The Last 20 Runnings

See below the key Eider Chase trends from the last 20 renewals – that include 90% of the last 20 winners aged 10 or younger and also 85% winning with 10st 13lbs or more in weight.

These Eider Chase stats also tell us that 16 of the last 20 winners ran in the last six weeks, plus 70% came from the top three in the betting with the best horse racing betting sites in the UK and also finished in the top four in their last race.

Eider Chase 2025 Race Details

📅Date: Saturday 22nd February 2025
⌚Time: 2:10pm
🏇Racecourse: Newcastle
🔄Trip: 4m 1 1/2f
💷Winning Purse: £41,624
📺 TV: ITV / Sky Sports Racing

Anglers Crag Looking To Become The First ‘Back-to-Back’ Eider Chase Winner Since The 1960’s

12 months ago, the Brian Ellison-trained Anglers Crag was a gutsy neck winner of the 2024 Eider Chase and he’s expected to be back to defend his Newcastle crown this Saturday.

Now aged 10, Anglers Crag is rated 8lbs higher than last year and also hasn’t won a race since (4 runs), so will need to bounce back.

On a plus, despite his age, he’s fairly lightly-raced with just 12 runs over fences (4 wins) and should strip fitter for a recent 4th in the Edinburgh National at Musselburgh earlier this month.

Anglers Crag, however, will also be looking to become the first Eider Chase back-to-back winner since a horse called Highland Wedding won the race three times between 1966 and 1969 – with the 1968 running called off due to snow.

Last year’s Eider Chase second Prince Des Fichaux, the fourth Gold Clermont. 

While Major Dundee also ran in the race 12 months ago – he was still in with a shout until unseating two fences from home.

Brian Ellison certainly loves a winner at Newcastle! ❤️

Anglers Crag provided him with a thrilling win in the Eider Chase! pic.twitter.com/6O732ZDo6H

— ITV Racing (@itvracing) February 25, 2024

Eider Chase Runners 2025 (Age in brackets)

Which Horses Tick The Most Eider Chase Trends 2025?

The main Eider Chase trends look to be distance (won over at least 3m), age (10 or younger), weight (10-13 or more), recent run (top 4 last time and ran in the last 6 weeks) and the market (top 3 in the betting).

With this in mind, at this stage Collectors Item and O’Connell, who both come here in winning form, look to tick a lot of the stats.

The 8 year-old Collectors Item was second in the London National at Sandown over 3m 4 1/2f back in December, so we knwo he stays. He’s since backed that up with a smooth win at Wincanton.

The Jonjo and AJ O’Neill-trained horse is also up just 4lbs more here and with just nine career chase starts could have more improvement to come.

O’Connell is in tip-top form too, having won his last three. This 9 year-old was last in action wining at Sandown at the start of the month by a comfortable 2 3/4 lengths and won over 3m 3 1/2f at Market Rasen the time before so is another with assured stamina.

The 8lb hike in the ratings makes like harder for O’Connell this time, but the way he won last time suggests he could still have more to come over this extreme trip.

Eider Chase Winners Since 2014