Jim Ford Challenge Cup
The Jim Ford Challenge Cup was a National Hunt Listed chase in England. It was run at Wincanton over a distance of 3 miles and 1½ furlongs (5,130 metres), and it was scheduled to take place each year in February, on the same card as the Kingwell Hurdle.
| 2008 | ||
| Neptune Collonges | Naunton Brook | Butler's Cabin |
| Previous years | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | ||
| Little Brick | My Will | Preacher Boy |
| 2006 | ||
| All in the Stars | Celtic Son | Horus |
| 2005 | ||
| Heros Collonges | Bathwick Annie | Royal Auclair |
| 2004 | ||
| Exit Swinger | Royal Auclair | Mister One |
| 2003 | ||
| See More Business | Iris Bleu | First Gold |
| 2002 | ||
| See More Business | Upgrade | Kadou Nonantais |
| 2001 | ||
| Marlborough | Double Thriller | Course Doctor |
| 2000-1991 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | ||
| Spendid | Escartefigue | Mulligan |
| 1999 | ||
| Double Thriller | Wayward King | Melling |
| 1998 | ||
| Go Ballistic | Strong Promise | Eudipe |
| 1997 | ||
| Coome Hill | Unguided Missile | Hanakham |
| 1995 | ||
| Monsieur Le Cure | Sunley Bay | Garrison Savannah |
| 1994 | ||
| See More Indians | Another Coral | Second Schedual |
| 1993 | ||
| Cavvies Clown | Garrison Savannah | Cool Ground |
| 1992 | ||
| Kings Fountain | Aquilifer | Boraceva |
| 1991 | ||
| Cool Ground | Arctic Call | Seagram |
| 1990-1988 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | ||
| Cavvies Clown | Cool Ground | Golden Friend |
| 1989 | ||
| Cavvies Clown | Golden Freeze | Only two finished |
| 1988 | ||
| Kildimo | Desert Orchid | Burrough Hill Lad |
The race was last run in 2008 having been turned into a handicap in 2006. During the eighties and early nineties the race regularly featured contests between David Elsworth's locally trained horses (Combs Ditch, Desert Orchid, Cavvies Clown, Lesley Ann) attempting to preserve local honour in the face of invasion by the big battalions from Lambourn (Burrough Hill Lad, Brown Chamberlin, Diamond Edge) and Yorkshire (Bregawn, Silver Buck).
The race was named in honour of Jim Ford, a local trainer who won the 1955 Cheltenham Gold Cup with Gay Donald.