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Virtual Racing tracks include Portman Park, Steepledowns, Sprintvalley, Lucksin' Downs, Race Of Champions(exclusive to Ladbrokes), Hope Park, Canterbury Hills, Sandy Lanes and Home Straights (all four exclusive to William Hill) for the virtual horse enthusiast, whilst virtual greyhounds have tracks called Brushwood, Millersfield, Trapton Park ...
Most of the earlier steeplechases were contested cross-country rather than on a track, and resembled English cross country as it exists today. The first recorded steeplechase over a prepared track with fences was run at Bedford in 1810, although a race had been run at Newmarket in 1794 over a mile (1600 m) with five-foot (1.5 m) bars every ...
William Dowling Harold A. Via, Jr. Jack Fisher Race 3 Westfield Dancer (Ire) 165 Richard Spate Lucy Horner Barbara McWade 15,000 Race 4 Perkedinthesand 150 Jeff Murphy Mrs. S. K. Johnston, Jr. Jack Fisher 25,000 Race 5 Eagle Beagle 152 Paddy Young Barracuda Stable Ricky Hendriks 10,000 Fall ‘08 Race 1 Prancing Cat 156 Paddy Young
The William Hill Handicap Hurdle is a Premier Handicap National Hunt handicap hurdle race in England which is open to horses aged four years or older. It is run at Aintree over a distance of about 2 miles and 4 furlongs (4,023 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in April.
The event was originally known as the National Hunt Handicap Chase, but its title has included the name of a sponsor from the early 1980s. It was backed by Ritz Club from 1981 until 1996, Astec Buzz Shop in 1997 and William Hill between 1998 and 2010. In 2011 the race was run as the Stewart Family Spinal Research Handicap Chase and sponsored by ...
The distances of the races are expressed in miles, furlongs and yards. In 2017 the BHA concluded a racecourse survey and remeasurement which led to some racecourses changing the exact distance of some races, or moving race start points to fit with advertised race distances. [1]
The race was sponsored by William Hill from 1976 to 1989, and during this period it was known as the William Hill Sprint Championship. It has had several different sponsors since then, and the latest is Coolmore Stud , which started supporting the event in 2007.
The present sponsor, William Hill, began to support the event in 2021. The field usually includes horses which ran previously in the Queen Mother Champion Chase , and the last to win both races in the same year was Energumene in 2023.