The Punchestown Champion Chase is a Grade 1 National Hunt chase in Ireland which is open to horses aged five years or older. It is run at Punchestown over a distance of about 2 miles (3,219 metres), and during its running there are eleven fences to be jumped. The race is scheduled to take place each year during the Punchestown Festival in late April.It was formerly a handicap race, and for much of the 1990s and early 2000s it was usually sponsored by BMW.