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The Irish Champion Hurdle is a Grade 1 National Hunt hurdle race in Ireland which is open to horses aged four years or older. It is run at Leopardstown over a distance of about 2 miles (3,219 metres), and during its running there are eight hurdles to be jumped. The race is scheduled to take place each year in late January or early February.
O'Sullivan was the champion under-21 rider in 2019, before turning professional in September 2022. [5] He had a day one double at the 2023 Cheltenham Festival with Marine Nationale and Gordon Elliott's Jazzy Matty. [6] [7] O'Sullivan ended his breakthrough campaign by being named Irish Champion conditional jockey with 32 winners. [8]
Istabraq (23 May 1992 – 25 July 2024) was an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse who was most famous for his hurdling.He won the Champion Hurdle on three consecutive occasions. He was trained by Aidan O'Brien and owned by John Patrick McManus.
Day 1 schedule, racecard and all the action as Cheltenham 2023 gets underway
Bar One Racing Handicap Hurdle: Hurdle: Fairyhouse: 2m: 4yo + Washington December: Irish Racing Mares Novice Hurdle Hurdle Punchestown: 2m 3½f 4yo + Rockstown Girl December: Bective Stud, Tea Rooms & Apartment Handicap Hurdle: Hurdle: Navan: 3m 1f: 4yo+ Flicker Of Hope December: Foxrock Handicap Chase: Chase: Navan: 2m 4½f: 4yo+ Sa Fureur ...
Macs Joy confirmed his superiority over Brave Inca and Hardy Eustace in the Irish Champion Hurdle at Leopardstown, and although the margins were much closer on this occasion, with the three horses crossing the line almost as one, [11] he had established himself as a leading contender for the Champion Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival. Geraghty ...
Champion Four Year Old Hurdle; Champion INH Flat Race; Champion Stayers Hurdle; Channor Real Estate Group Novice Hurdle; Christmas Hurdle (Ireland) Clonmel Oil Chase; Cork E.B.F. Novice Chase; Cork E.B.F. Novice Hurdle; Cork Stayers Novice Hurdle; Craddockstown Novice Chase
As a hurdler, he was the best Tom Dreaper ever trained. His wins included the Gloucestershire Hurdle at Cheltenham (now the Supreme Novices' Hurdle) and the Scalp Hurdle at Leopardstown (now the Irish Champion Hurdle). He also finished third in the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham. Flyingbolt and Arkle never met on the race track, mainly because ...