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The Champion Hurdle Trial is a Grade 2 National Hunt hurdle race in Great Britain held each January, which is open to horses aged four years or older. It is run at Haydock Park over a distance of about 1 mile 7½ furlongs (1 mile 7 furlongs and 144 yards, or 3,149 metres), and with nine hurdles.
In the 1989 Champion Hurdle he started a 50/1 outsider and won by two lengths from Celtic Chief, with the 1988 winner Celtic Shot in third place. The 11/8 favourite Kribensis finished seventh. Twelve of the fifteen runners completed the course.
The Champion Hurdle is a Grade 1 National Hunt hurdle race in Great Britain which is open to horses aged four years or older. It is run on the Old Course at Cheltenham over a distance of about 2 miles and ½ furlong (2 miles and 87 yards, or 3,298 metres), and during its running there are eight hurdles to be jumped.
Champion Hurdle winners: Bula (1971, 1972), Lanzarote (1974), Celtic Shot (1988) Champion Chase winner: Crisp (1971) Other Cheltenham Festival winners:
The Welsh Champion Hurdle is a National Hunt Limited handicap hurdle race in Wales which is open to horses aged ... Celtic Shot 7 11-06 Peter Scudamore: Charlie ...
It was the 64th running of the Champion Hurdle. The winner was Eric Scarth's Granville Again, a seven-year-old chestnut gelding trained in Devon by Martin Pipe and ridden by Peter Scudamore. Granville Again's victory was a first in the race for trainer and owner and a second for Scudamore, who had ridden Celtic Shot to victory in 1988.
Flakey Dove (10 April 1986 – 13 February 2016) was a British racehorse best known for her win in the 1994 Champion Hurdle.In a career which lasted from January 1990 until January 1995 she ran forty-four times and won fourteen races.
Champion Hurdle (2008) Last updated on 30 June 2009 Katchit (23 February 2003 – 9 January 2013) was an Irish -bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse , the peak of whose flat racing and hurdling career came in 2008 when, against the odds, he won the Champion Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival .