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Class 2 or Class 3 races worth £50,000 or more run between mid-October and the end of the season, or £40,000 or more between the start of the season and mid-October. Races worth £34,000 or more which are a course's most important race of the season or which have historical importance. All Regional Grand National races, and any Cross-Country ...
The highest profile National Hunt race is the Grand National, run at Aintree in April each year. The race is a different sort of contest from the Gold Cup: it is a Grade 3 race, it is run over a distance of more than 4 miles (6.4 km), there are up to 40 runners, the course at Aintree is essentially flat, and the horses are handicapped (the best ...
National Hunt racing, races run over distances between 2 miles and 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles, where horses usually jump either hurdles or fences (races known as steeplechases). There is also a category of National Hunt races known as National Hunt flat races , which are run under National Hunt rules, but where no obstacles are jumped.
Cork Grand National Chase Cork: 3m 4f 4yo + Sphagnum November: T.A. Morris Memorial Mares Chase: Chase Clonmel: 2m 4f: 4yo + Pink In The Park November: Brown Lad Handicap Hurdle: Hurdle: Naas: 2m 4f: 4yo + The Busy Fool November: Irish EBF Mares INH Flat Race: Flat: Navan: 2m: 4–7yo Churchfield Sunset November: Tara Hurdle: Hurdle: Navan: 2m ...
The Cheltenham Festival is a horse racing-based meeting in the National Hunt racing calendar in the United Kingdom, with race prize money second only to the Grand National. [1] The four-day festival takes place annually in March at Cheltenham Racecourse in Cheltenham , Gloucestershire .
The collective term "jump racing" or "National Hunt racing" is used when referring to steeplechases and hurdle races collectively (although, properly speaking, National Hunt racing also includes some flat races). Elsewhere in the world, "steeplechase" is used to refer to any race that involves jumping obstacles.
National Hunt flat races, informally known as bumper races, are a type of flat racing but run under National Hunt racing rules in Britain and Ireland.. National Hunt flat races were created on 15 July 1891 when a conference between the stewards of the British and Irish National Hunt Committees decided to abolish the distinction between the hunter and handicap horses and created a new ...
The National Hunt Challenge Cup is a National Hunt steeplechase in Great Britain which is open to horses aged five years or older. It is run on the Old Course at Cheltenham over a distance of about 3 miles 6 furlongs (3 miles 5 furlongs and 201 yards, or 6,018 metres), and during its running there are twenty-three fences to be jumped.