Stayers' Hurdle
16:00 Cheltenham Festival
2025-03-13
Winner: £
Runners: 29
Going:
No. of hurdles: 12
Distance: 2m7f213y
The Paddy Power Stayers’ Hurdle takes place on day three of the Cheltenham Festival and is a Grade 1 hurdle over three miles. It is the championship contest for long-distance hurdlers and has been won by some of the best hurdlers in the history of jump racing, including Thistlecrack, Big Buck’s, Inglis Drever and Baracouda.
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RACING POST TIP
STAYERS HURDLE PREVIOUS WINNERS
| Year | Horse | Previous Form | Age | Price | Trainer | Jockey |
| 2023 | Sire Du Berlais | 55P4 | 11 | 33-1 | Gordon Elliott | Mark Walsh |
| 2022 | Flooring Porter | 11PF-2 | 7 | 4-1 | Gavin Cromwell | D E Mullins |
| 2021 | Flooring Porter | 13211 | 6 | 12-1 | Gavin Cromwell | D E Mullins |
| 2020 | Lisnagar Oscar | 239F3 | 7 | 50-1 | Rebecca Curtis | Adam Wedge |
| 2019 | Pailsey Park | 0-1111 | 7 | 11-8F | Emma Lavelle | Aidan Coleman |
| 2018 | Penhill | 14112- | 7 | 12-1 | Willie Mullins | Paul Townend |
| 2017 | Nichols Canyon | 3-312F | 7 | 10-1 | Willie Mullins | Ruby Walsh |
| 2016 | Thistlecrack | 77068 | 8 | EvensF | Colin Tizzard | Tom Scudamore |
| 2015 | Cole Harden | -243218 | 6 | 14-1 | Warren Greatrex | Gavin Sheehan |
| 2014 | More Of That | 1-111 | 6 | 15-2 | Jonjo O’Neill | Barry Geraghty |
STAYERS HURDLE KEY TRENDS AND STATS
Key trends
- Ran no more than four times since August, 9/10
- Aged six to eight, 9/10
- Top-three finish on last completed start, 8/10
- Ran between eight and 16 times over hurdles, 8/10
- Won a Graded hurdle over at least 3m, 8/10
- Previously ran at the festival, 7/10
- Adjusted RPR of at least 165, 7/10
- Finished in first three in all completed hurdle starts that season, 6/10
Other factors
- Five of the ten Irish winners since the mid-1980s prepped in the Boyne Hurdle at Navan.
- The record of Cleeve Hurdle winners is 2131738.
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WHAT HAPPENED LAST YEAR - STAYERS HURDLE 2023
SIRE DU BERLAIS, winner of the Pertemps in 2019 and 2020, and runner-up to Flooring Porter in this in 2021, finished well held in last season’s Pertemps but Cheltenham brings him to life and he flew up the run-in for a remarkable and unexpected career best at the age of 11 returning at 33-1. Flooring Porter ensured a good gallop, and there was a right old turn-up with the first two past the post amongst the complete outsiders. After seemingly causing slight interference to the Teahupoo on the run-in, Dashel Drasher was demoted to third, but he was reinstated to second on appeal.