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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.
The 2004 Champion Hurdle was a horse race held at Cheltenham Racecourse on Tuesday 16 March 2004. [1] It was the 74th running of the Champion Hurdle. The race was won by Laurence Byrne's Hardy Eustace, a seven-year-old gelding trained in Ireland by Dessie Hughes and ridden by Conor O'Dwyer. His victory was the first in the race for his owner ...
The following season (2004/05), Hardy Eustace was placed in his first 3 runs of the season: the Tara Hurdle, December Festival Hurdle and the AIG Europe Champion Hurdle. He then went to Gowran Park to win the Red Mills Trial Hurdle before coming back to Cheltenham for the Champion Hurdle again, where he was sent off the 7/2 joint favourite.
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 ...
American Classic Race wins: Belmont Stakes (1990) International: Hong Kong Mile (1991) Melbourne Cup (1993, 2002) [1] Secretariat Stakes (2008) Steeplechase / Hurdling: Anniversary 4-Y-O Novices' Hurdle (1986) Irish Grand National (1988) Triumph Hurdle (1990) Irish Champion Hurdle (1994, 1995) Punchestown Gold Cup (1980) Ryanair Gold Cup (1992 ...
The two went on to win five Grade 1 races, with wins in the Fighting Fifth Hurdle (2004, 2007), Christmas Hurdle (2004, 2008) and the John James McManus Memorial Hurdle (2005). [6] However, the pairing is most known for their battle with Hardy Eustace at the 2005 Champion Hurdle. In the race, Harchibald looked certain to win, only to be beat by ...
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
O'Neill twice won the British Champion Jockey title (1977–78 & 1979–80) and won the Cheltenham Gold Cup on the mare, Dawn Run who became the only horse to complete the double of winning the Champion Hurdle and the Gold Cup at the Cheltenham Festival. He won 900 races as a jockey.