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Cork E.B.F. Novice Chase

hurdle horse race in Ireland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ20807241 ↗
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The Cork E.B.F. Novice Chase is a Grade 3 National Hunt novice steeplechase in Ireland which is open to horses aged five years or older.

It is run at Cork over a distance of 2 miles and 4 furlongs (4,023 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in late October or early November. The race has been sponsored by Paddy Power since 2014.

The race was first run in 1999 and was awarded Grade 3 status in 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cork E.B.F. Novice Chase” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.