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Champion Hurdle

July 2024

  • Istabraq, with Charlie Swan aboard

    Istabraq, three-time Champion Hurdle winner, dies at age of 32

    Istabraq, one of the all-time great hurdlers in jump racing history, has died at the age of 32 his owner JP McManus has announced

March 2024

  • Paul Townend celebrates victory on State Man in the Champion Hurdle.

    State Man battles to gruelling Champion Hurdle victory for Willie Mullins

  • Trainer Nicky Henderson with Constitution Hill

    Constitution Hill ruled out of Champion Hurdle defence at Cheltenham Festival

March 2023

  • Trainer Nicky Henderson with Constitution Hill at Seven Barrows stables

    Constitution Hill a once-in-a-lifetime talent but racing offers no guarantees

    The Champion Hurdle hot favourite takes an unbeaten record to the Cheltenham Festival but ‘cert’ is a dangerous label to put upon any horse

March 2022

  • Rachael Blackmore poses with the trophy after winning the Champion Hurdle atop Honeysuckle

    Honeysuckle and Rachael Blackmore retain Champion Hurdle crown

  • Honeysuckle on the gallops at Cheltenham before she defends her Champion Hurdle crown on Tuesday.

    Talking Horses
    Talking Horses: Honeysuckle primed for sweet victory in Champion Hurdle

December 2021

  • Sharjah pips Zanahiyr at Leopardstown.

    Sharjah joins list of Irish greats with four-timer in Matheson Hurdle

    Sharjah finished with a flourish to secure a historic fourth successive victory in the Matheson Hurdle at Leopardstown

March 2021

  • Rachael Blackmore celebrates her Champion Hurdle victory on Honeysuckle.

    Rachael Blackmore and Honeysuckle storm to historic Champion Hurdle win

    Rachael Blackmore created history when becoming the first female jockey to win the Champion Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival on Honeysuckle

December 2020

  • Harry Cobden rides Bravemansgame to victory at Newbury.

    Nicholls puts Bravemansgame in Denman class after Challow Hurdle win

    Bravemansgame produced an emphatic display to land the Grade One Challow Novice Hurdle with ease under Harry Cobden at Newbury

March 2020

  • Epatante sprints clear of the field to win the Champion Hurdle.

    Epatante lands big gamble in Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham Festival

  • Epatante can land the Champion Hurdle on the opening day of the Cheltenham Festival.

    Talking Horses
    Talking Horses: Epatante can give Henderson eighth Champion Hurdle

February 2020

  • Epatante and Chelsea Eggleton have a dip in the water at Nicky Henderson’s stables.Epatante and Chelsea Eggleton have a dip in the water at Nicky Henderson's stables Seven Barrows. Horse Racing - 17 Feb 2020

    Talking Horses
    Talking Horses: Epatante coughing but on course for Champion Hurdle

    The favourite for the big race on the opening day of the Cheltenham Festival is on medication after health scare

January 2020

  • Defi Du Seuil and Barry Geraghty win the Clarence House Chase

    Defi Du Seuil powers to victory in Ascot’s Clarence House Chase

    Defi Du Seuil became the new favourite for the Cheltenham’s Champion Chase after beating his old rival Un De Sceaux at Ascot

December 2019

  • Sharjah winning at Leopardstown

    Willie Mullins’s Sharjah triumphs in Leopardstown’s Matheson Hurdle

    Klassical Dream finished last, and drifted in the Champions Hurdle betting, while stablemate Sharjah won Leopardstown’s feature race

March 2019

  • Espoir D’Allen, ridden by Mark Walsh, wins the Champion Hurdle.

    Espoir D’Allen shock winner of Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham

    Espoir D’Allen, trained by Gavin Cromwell and ridden by Mark Walsh, won the Champion Hurdle after dual winner Buveur D’Air fell

February 2019

  • Nicky Henderson and Altior during Nicky Henderson’s media day

    Nicky Henderson out of sync with ‘bizarre preparation’ for Cheltenham

  • Bellshill just gets up to beat Road To Respect

    Apple’s Jade and Buveur D’Air set to top bill in Cheltenham Champion Hurdle

January 2019

  • Samcro jumping a hurdle, a sight that may yet be seen at Prestbury Park in mid-March.

    Talking Horses
    Talking Horses: Samcro news is bad but it's not over until it's over

    A Champion Hurdle bid may be ever so doubtful but let’s remember that it remains a possibility for the time being

December 2018

  • Sharjah, ridden by Patrick Mullins, jumps the last

    Leopardstown win makes Sharjah a Cheltenham fancy but Samcro sinks again

  • Buveur D’Air, ridden by Barry Geraghty, takes the final flight

    Buveur D’Air routs Samcro in Newcastle’s Fighting Fifth Hurdle

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