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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]
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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 ...
The Punchestown 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 Punchestown over a distance of about 2 miles (3,219 metres), and during its running there are nine hurdles to be jumped. The race is scheduled to take place each year during the Punchestown Festival in ...
Gerry Newman rode him in that race, but for most of his other successes his jockeys were Bobby Beasley [4] and Bobby Coonan. [5] Throughout his career, Captain Christy was trained by Pat Taaffe , and that victory over Bula was the second time he had beaten the dual Champion Hurdle winner; he had also outgalloped him when winning the 1972 Irish ...
The race was first run in 1997 and was awarded Grade 3 status in 2003. In line with several races at Tipperary, the race is named after a horse owned by J. P. McManus, his Irish Champion Hurdle winning mare, Like-A-Butterfly. The race was previously named after another J. P. McManus owned horse, Grimes.