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...
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The Champion Hurdle is a Grade 1 National Hunt hurdle race in Great Britain which is open to horses aged four years or older. It is run on the Old Course...
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Istabraq (category Champion Hurdle winners)
1992 – 25 July 2024) was an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse who was most famous for his hurdling. He won the Champion Hurdle on three consecutive occasions...
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Rachael Blackmore (category Irish female jockeys)
2021) Irish Champion Hurdle – (3) – Honeysuckle (2020, 2021, 2022) Irish Daily Mirror Novice Hurdle – (1) – Minella Indo (2019) Ladbrokes Champion Chase...
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Hurricane Fly (category Champion Hurdle winners)
Willie Mullins at Closutton in County Carlow in Ireland. He is a dual winner of the Champion Hurdle and previously held the world record for most Grade...
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Davy Russell (category Irish jockeys)
Davy Russell (born 27 June 1979) is an Irish retired National Hunt jockey. He was Irish jump racing Champion Jockey three times, and won the Grand National...
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Henry de Bromhead (category Irish racehorse trainers)
trainer in 2008 when Sizing Europe won the Irish Champion Hurdle and since then has gone on to have success in Ireland and the UK. His major successes include...
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Willie Mullins (category Irish racehorse trainers)
Bellshill (2018), Kemboy (2019), Allaho (2022) Irish St. Leger - (1) Wicklow Brave (2016) Irish Champion Hurdle - (8) Hurricane Fly (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014...
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Dermot Weld (category Irish racehorse trainers)
Festival Hurdle - (2) - Fortune and Fame (1993), Unaccompanied (2011) Herald Champion Novice Hurdle - (1) - Fortune and Fame (1992) Irish Champion Hurdle - (2)...
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Faugheen (category Champion Hurdle winners)
2 May 2008) is an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 2015 Champion Hurdle and back-to-back Christmas Hurdles in 2014 and 2015. His...
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Tony McCoy (category British Champion jumps jockeys)
the British and Irish jumps circuit. His most high-profile winners include the Cheltenham Gold Cup, Champion Hurdle, Queen Mother Champion Chase, King George...
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Ruby Walsh (category Irish jockeys)
Bellshill (2016) Irish Champion Hurdle -(6) Brave Inca (2009), Hurricane Fly (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015), Faugheen (2016) Deloitte Novice Hurdle -(3) Alexander...
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Jessica Harrington (category Irish racehorse trainers)
-(1) Sizing John (2017) Irish 1,000 Guineas – (1) Alpha Centauri (2018) Irish Oaks - (1) Magical Lagoon (2022) Irish Champion Hurdle - (2) Macs Joy (2005)...
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2010, 2011, 2012) Champion Hurdle - (1) Rock On Ruby (2012) Supreme Novices' Hurdle - (2) Noland (2006), Al Ferof (2011) Triumph Hurdle - (2) Celestial...
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Honeysuckle (horse) (category Champion Hurdle winners)
nineteen races, including two Champion Hurdles, two Mares' Hurdles, three Irish Champion Hurdles and two Punchestown Champion Hurdles. She was trained by Henry...
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Mouse Morris (category Irish jockeys)
best novice hurdlers of the period. His Song finished second behind the J. P. McManus owned Istabraq in the 1998 AIG Irish Champion Hurdle on his fourth...
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Supasundae (category Racehorses trained in Ireland)
Punchestown Champion Hurdle". The Irish Times. 27 April 2018. Retrieved 15 February 2022. "Supasundae finally lands Betway Aintree Hurdle". Sky Sports...
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Aidan O'Brien (category Irish racehorse trainers)
(2023) Irish Champion Hurdle – (4) – Istabraq (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001) Punchestown Champion Hurdle – (1) – Istabraq (1999) December Festival Hurdle – (5)...
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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...
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Aidan Coleman (category Irish jockeys)
2007 on Tashkandi in a hurdle race at Uttoxeter. He then switched to the yard of Venetia Williams, winning the 2008/09 champion conditional jockey championship...
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Macs Joy (category Racehorses trained in Ireland)
name was written without an apostrophe) was an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse who won several important hurdle races including three at Grade I level between...
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campaigned over hurdles he won the Irish Champion Hurdle in 1990 and the Stayers' Hurdle in 1992 and twice finished second in the Champion Hurdle. He also finished...
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Prince, by Neville Callaghan in Newmarket. Royal Derbi won the Irish Champion Hurdle in 1993. In 1994 Tabor paid more than $400,000 for the promising...
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The KPMG Champion Novice Hurdle is a Grade 1 National Hunt hurdle race in Ireland which is open to horses aged five years or older. It is run at Punchestown...
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Charlie Swan (horse trainer) (category Irish racehorse trainers)
National Hunt jockey in Ireland in the 1990s. He is associated with the great Istabraq, on whom he won three Champion Hurdles. He was twice top jockey...
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Dawn Run (category Champion Hurdle winners)
(1978–1986) was an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse and the most successful mare in the history of National Hunt racing. She won the Champion Hurdle at the Cheltenham...
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(6/1) was representative of the Irish best hope coming on the back of two Grade 1s including the Irish Champion Hurdle in which Footpad (14/1) finished...
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Solwhit (category Racehorses trained in Ireland)
April 17, 2004 in France) was a French-bred, Irish-trained thoroughbred racehorse. A specialist hurdler, he competed in National Hunt races. He died on...
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Dessie Hughes (category Irish racehorse trainers)
Hunt (2007) Irish Champion Hurdle – Hardy Eustace (2007) Racing Post Novice Chase – (2) – Central House (2002), Schindler's Hunt (2006) Irish Grand National...
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Apple's Jade (category Racehorses trained in Ireland)
(foaled 24 April 2012) is a French-bred, Irish-trained Thoroughbred racehorse who competed in National Hunt hurdle races. She won 11 times at Grade I level...
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