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The 1984 winner, Dawn Run, became the second mare to win the Champion Hurdle. In the same year she also won the Irish and French versions of the event, and two seasons later she won the most prestigious chase in National Hunt racing, the Cheltenham Gold Cup. She remains the only horse to have completed the Champion Hurdle-Gold Cup double.
The race was abandoned throughout World War I, with no running from 1915 to 1918. During World War II it was cancelled only once, in 1940. The minimum age was raised to five in 1961, when a new hurdle race, the Grande Course de Haies des 4 Ans (later titled the Prix Alain du Breil), was introduced specifically for four-year-olds.
This page lists Champion Hurdle winners. Pages in category "Champion Hurdle winners" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total.
Football tournament FIFA World Cup final Founded 1930 ; 95 years ago (1930) Current champions Argentina (3rd title) Most successful team(s) Brazil (5 titles) The FIFA World Cup is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship ...
The berths for the inaugural 1930 tournament were filled by invitation only. The 1934 one was the first one to have an actual qualifying phase.The first ever World Cup qualifying match was played on 11 June 1933, when Sweden defeated Estonia 6–2 in Stockholm, and the first goal was scored 7 minutes into the game, with some sources [1] attributing it to Swedish captain Knut Kroon while others ...
The Pertemps Network Final is a Premier Handicap National Hunt hurdle race in Great Britain which is open to horses aged five years or older. It is run on the New Course at Cheltenham over a distance of about 3 miles (2 miles 7 furlongs and 213 yards, or 4,785 metres), and during its running there are twelve hurdles to be jumped.
Eight nations have won the tournament. The inaugural winners in 1930 were Uruguay; the current champions are Argentina. The most successful nation is Brazil, which has won the cup on five occasions. [3] Five teams have appeared in FIFA World Cup finals without winning, [4] while twelve more have appeared in the semi-finals. [5]
The 2024 Champion Hurdle was a horse race held at Cheltenham Racecourse on Tuesday 12 March 2024. It was the 94th running of the Champion Hurdle . The race was won by 2/5 favourite State Man, ridden by Paul Townend and trained by Willie Mullins .