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Champion Hurdle

16:00 Cheltenham Festival

2025-03-11

Winner: £253,215

Runners: 16

Going:

No. of hurdles: 8

Distance: 2m0f87y

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The Unibet Champion Hurdle, the feature race on day one of the Cheltenham Festival, is the championship contest for 2m hurdlers and has been won by some of the greatest hurdlers of all time, including Night Nurse, Persian War, Sea Pigeon and Istabraq.

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12(0)
414332
silk
Winter Fog

66/1

T: W P Mullins
11
11-10
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158
8(0)
67-211
silk
Nemean Lion

80/1

T: Kerry Lee
8
11-10
150
157
3(0)
11-220
silk
Brentford Hope

66/1

T: Harry Derham
8
11-10
148
148
1(0)
111-73
silk
All The World

100/1

T: Kazuya Nakatake
8
11-10
-
11(0)
11-123
silk
State Man

10/1

T: W P Mullins
8
11-10
-
172
5(0)
11/1-1
silk
Constitution Hill

5/6

T: Nicky Henderson
8
11-10
175
166
9(0)
4PU4U3
silk
Senecia

100/1

T: Vincent Laurence Halley
8
11-10
-
144
6(0)
0-4225
silk
King Of Kingsfield

66/1

T: Gordon Elliott
7
11-10
-
148
16(0)
11-112
silk
Lossiemouth

4/1

T: W P Mullins
6
11-3
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167
4(0)
112-13
silk
Burdett Road

33/1

T: James Owen
5
11-10
150
159
14(0)
111-43
silk
Golden Ace

100/1

T: Jeremy Scott
7
11-3
144
150
13(0)
21-111
silk
Brighterdaysahead

4/1

T: Gordon Elliott
6
11-3
-
176
15(0)
122-12
silk
Kargese

100/1

T: W P Mullins
5
11-3
-
150
10(0)
111-11
silk
Sir Gino

25/1

T: Nicky Henderson
5
11-10
-
160
2(0)
11-1
silk
Anzadam

12/1

T: W P Mullins
5
11-10
-
154
7(0)
612-1
silk
Kitzbuhel

50/1

T: W P Mullins
5
11-10
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150

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CHAMPION HURDLE PREVIOUS WINNERS

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Year Horse Previous Form Age Price Trainer Jockey
2024 State Man 21-111 7 2-5F Willie Mullins Paul Townend
2023 Constitution Hill 1-11 6 4-11F Nicky Henderson Nico de Boinville
2022 Honeysuckle 111-11 8 8-11 Henry De Bromhead Rachael Blackmore
2021 Honeysuckle 111-11 7 9-4 Henry De Bromhead Rachael Blackmore
2020 Epitante 119-11 6 2-1F Nicky Henderson Barry Geraghty
2019 Espoir D’Allen 14-111 5 16-1 Gavin Cromwell Mark Walsh
2018 Buveur D’Air 11-111 7 4-6F Nicky Henderson Barry Geraghty
2017 Buveur D’Air 31-111 6 5-1 Nicky Henderson Noel Fehily
2016 Annie Power 21-F-11 8 5-2F Willie Mullins Ruby Walsh
2015 Faugheen 111-11 7 4-5F Willie Mullins Ruby Walsh

CHAMPION HURDLE TRENDS AND STATS

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Key trends

  • Rated within 8lb of RPR top-rated, 9/10
  • Won a Grade 1 hurdle, 9/10
  • Won last time out, 9/10
  • No more than 12 hurdle runs, 9/10
  • Aged between six and eight, 9/10
  • Adjusted RPR of at least 168, 8/10

Other factors

  • Katchit (2008) broke a longstanding trend when he became the first five-year-old to win since See You Then in 1985 but in 2019 Espoir D’Allen became the second in just over a decade (28 from that age group had failed in the interim).
  • Three winners had not run since the turn of the year (two trained by Nicky Henderson).

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WHAT HAPPENED LAST YEAR - CHAMPION HURDLE 2023

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Constitution Hill became the first since Bula in 1971 to do the Supreme/Champion Hurdle double and did so in incredible fashion, registering the highest winning RPR (177) in the history of the race. State Man who had lowered Honeysuckle’s colours in the Irish Champion Hurdle a month earlier, would be more than capable of winning a standard Champion Hurdle, but had to settle for chasing home Constitution Hill to the sum of nine lengths. Zanahyir chased the pair home a respectable 4 lengths behind with Vauban a further two and a quarter lengths back in fourth.