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Mares Hurdle

15:20 Cheltenham Festival

2025-03-11

Winner: £67,524

Runners: 24

Going:

No. of hurdles: 10

Distance: 2m3f200y

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The Close Brothers Mares' Hurdle is a Grade 1 hurdle run over 2m4f and restricted to mares. It is run on day one of the Cheltenham Festival and is a relatively new addition to the meeting, having first been staged in 2008. Irish champion trainer Willie Mullins has dominated the Mares’ Hurdle, having won nine of the 14 runnings including the six in a row with star mare Quevega.

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23(0)
3-4534
silk
West Balboa

50/1

T: Dan Skelton
9
11-5
138
152
1(0)
569116
silk
All The Glory

100/1

T: Jonjo & A J O'Neill
8
11-5
135
144
8(0)
1-2PFF
silk
Got Glory

100/1

T: W P Mullins
7
11-5
-
137
6(0)
1336-2
silk
Gala Marceau

66/1

T: W P Mullins
6
11-5
-
149
19(0)
4/711-
silk
Nurse Susan

66/1

T: Dan Skelton
8
11-5
-
145
15(0)
41-315
silk
Kateira

20/1

T: Dan Skelton
8
11-5
145
154
3(0)
1-1P44
silk
Casa No Mento

100/1

T: Nigel Twiston-Davies
7
11-5
138
143
4(0)
111-37
silk
Dysart Enos

33/1

T: Fergal O'Brien
7
11-5
135
146
20(0)
4-36P4
silk
Pinot Rouge

150/1

T: Susan Corbett
7
11-5
126
133
17(0)
11-112
silk
Lossiemouth

3/1

T: W P Mullins
6
11-5
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165
21(0)
/111-2
silk
Queens Gamble

50/1

T: Harry Derham
7
11-5
135
141
11(0)
3-2153
silk
Jetara

66/1

T: Mrs John Harrington
7
11-5
-
153
22(0)
431531
silk
Take No Chances

14/1

T: Dan Skelton
7
11-5
139
148
18(0)
/8-116
silk
Lot Of Joy

66/1

T: W P Mullins
7
11-5
-
145
7(0)
111-43
silk
Golden Ace

20/1

T: Jeremy Scott
7
11-5
144
148
16(0)
/14-74
silk
Lantry Lady

66/1

T: Henry De Bromhead
7
11-5
-
149
5(0)
3-1333
silk
Feet Of A Dancer

66/1

T: Paul Nolan
6
11-5
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142
2(0)
21-111
silk
Brighterdaysahead

2/1

T: Gordon Elliott
6
11-5
-
174
14(0)
122-12
silk
Kargese

8/1

T: W P Mullins
5
11-5
-
148
24(0)
13-141
silk
Wyenot

50/1

T: Henry Daly
6
11-5
137
149
12(0)
223-31
silk
July Flower

5/1

T: Henry De Bromhead
6
11-5
-
149
13(0)
15-122
silk
Kala Conti

25/1

T: Gordon Elliott
5
11-5
-
148
10(0)
/1141-
silk
Jade De Grugy

12/1

T: W P Mullins
6
11-5
-
153
9(0)
11-112
silk
Hollygrove Cha Cha

100/1

T: Jamie Snowden
5
11-5
121
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MARES HURDLE PREVIOUS WINNERS

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Year Horse Previous Form Age Price Trainer Jockey
2024 Lossiemouth 1211-1 5 8-13F Willie Mullins Paul Townend
2023 Honeysuckle -132 9 9-4F Henry De Bromhead Rachael Blackmore
2022 Marie’s Rock 317P1 7 18-1 Nicky Henderson Nico de Boinville
2021 Black Tears 22-331 7 11-1 Denise Foster Jack Kennedy
2020 Honeysuckle 11-111 6 9-4 Henry De Bromhead Rachael Blackmore
2019 Roksana 3-1112 7 10-1 Dan Skelton Harry Skelton
2018 Benie Des Dieux 33-1-11 7 9-2 Willie Mullins Ruby Walsh
2017 Apple’s Jade 1-2212 5 7-2 Gordon Elliott Bryan Cooper
2016 Vroum Vroum Mag 11-111 7 4-6F Willie Mullins Ruby Walsh
2015 Glens Melody 4-7521 7 6-1 Willie Mullins Paul Townend

MARES HURDLE KEY TRENDS AND STATS

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Key trends

  • At least eight career starts, 9/10
  • Top-four finish in a Grade 1 or 2 hurdle, 9/10
  • Adjusted RPR of at least 156, 8/10
  • Rated within 10lb of RPR top-rated, 8/10
  • Won last time out, 7/10

Other factors

  • A runner priced 16-1 or bigger has finished in the first three in eight of the last ten runnings.
  • Willie Mullins has trained four of the last ten winners.
  • Quevega used to come here fresh when defending her crown but eight of the last nine winners had between two and five outings that season.

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WHAT HAPPENED LAST YEAR - MARES HURDLE 2023

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Arguably the best field of mares ever assembled for this race; they had a combined 23 Grade 1 wins including three Champion Hurdles. It saw a fairytale ending to the career of HONEYSUCKLE, who was winning for the fourth successive year at the festival. She was helped by being well positioned in a race run at a dawdling early gallop that compromised the chance of several. Love Envoi was denied by a length, a further four lengths back to Queen’s Brook in third.