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Champion Four Year Old Hurdle

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Race type
  
Hurdle race

Website
  
Punchestown

Surface
  
Turf

Sponsor
  
AES Waste Management

Distance
  
2 miles (3,219 metres)

Location
  
PunchestownCo. Kildare, Ireland

The Champion Four Year Old Hurdle is a Grade 1 National Hunt hurdle race in Ireland which is open to horses aged four years. It is run at Punchestown over a distance of about 2 miles (3,219 metres), and during its running there are nine hurdles to be jumped. The race is for novice hurdlers, and it is scheduled to take place each year during the Punchestown Festival in late April or early May. The race is currently sponsored by AES Waste Management.

Contents

The field usually includes horses which ran previously in the Triumph Hurdle at Cheltenham, and the last to win both events was Katarino in 1999.

Records

Leading jockey since 1980 (4 wins):

  • Ruby Walsh - Holy Orders (2001), Sporazene (2003), Diakali (2013), Abbyssial (2014)

    • Leading trainer since 1980 (6 wins):

  • Willie Mullins - Holy Order (2001), Quatre Heures (2006), Diakali (2013), Abbyssial (2014), Petite Parisienne (2015), Apple's Jade (2016)

    • Winners since 1980

  • Amateur jockeys indicated by "Mr".

    • 1 The 2001 running took place at Fairyhouse.

    References

    Champion Four Year Old Hurdle Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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