Three horses hit the deck on the bend past the stands in the opening Bank Of Ireland Handicap Hurdle. |
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If they find that she can't hack it over two miles at the top level she'll take her place in the World Hurdle instead, but that's not the dream. |
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How many horses can come to the last still on the bridle in the Champion Hurdle? |
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Willie Mullins runs Rule Supreme in today's Ladbrokes' World Hurdle, but has also left him in the Gold Cup. |
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O'Dwyer was expecting to be aboard the horse in the final race of the festival, the County Hurdle on the Thursday. |
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At Ludlow, Maybeseven is awarded the nap vote in the Sara Hamilton-Russell Memorial Handicap Hurdle over three-and-a-quarter miles. |
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Pipe's Marcel earlier clocked up a sixth straight win when claiming the Sharp Novices' Hurdle. |
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Young Scotton goes to post in the opening race, the Highland Spring Novices' Hurdle. |
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There won t be any Limestone Lad in the Stayers Hurdle but in Bannow Bay we have a horse that is definitely one of the Irish banker bets. |
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The third race on day one is the Smurfit Champion Hurdle which is a wide open contest this year. |
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The 11-year-old achieved his finest hour when winning the 2003 Champion Hurdle, having taken this corresponding race the previous November. |
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A thrilling finish saw Hardy Eustace successfully defend his Champion Hurdle title, edging out Harchibald and Brave Inca on the line. |
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He ended last season by winning the Scottish Champion Hurdle, then injured himself in his first novice chase. |
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The Cheltenham crowds were stunned when jockey Charlie Swan pulled up on favourite Istabraq with his mount tailed off just two flights into this year's Hurdle running. |
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He was challenging aboard 4-5 favourite Vanormix in the Steel Plate Trial Juvenile Novices' Hurdle when his right foot slipped out of the stirrup iron after the final flight. |
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The disproportionately valuable Fred Winter Hurdle took the Pertemps' Tuesday slot because the official handicappers insisted the juvenile handicap was run before the Triumph. |
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Norton trainer Malcolm Jefferson can make his long journey to Britain's most northerly course worthwhile by winning the Famous Grouse Novices' Hurdle with Brooklyn Brownie. |
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Last March he came to the last flight in the Champion Hurdle locked in combat with Hardy Eustace and Harchibald, no other horse left with a chance. |
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Winning trainer Jonjo O'Neill said the horse may have one more run in a bumper before going hurdling with the Supreme Novices Hurdle at the Festival one of the aims. |
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If the full committee approves it with dispatch, it will face Hurdle Two. |
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The first big betting race of the year come our way this weekend when the Pierse Hurdle will again draw a big field and have punters scratching their heads to find the winner. |
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The banker bet of the Festival is still Baracouda for the Stayer's Hurdle, despite Crystal D' Ainays' impressive win in the Byrne Bros Cleeve Hurdle. |
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Even Baracouda, considered by many to be a bigger banker than Best Mate, had to settle for second in the Stayers' Hurdle in the race before the Gold Cup. |
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He frequently makes the best of limited opportunities, and was again seen to advantage aboard Forest Leader in the moderate Rathkeale Handicap Hurdle. |
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Metais has ridden at Cheltenham before, finishing fifth on Nolt in the 2002 running of the Finesse Hurdle. |
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The Stayers Hurdle, first ran in 1912, is the oldest race from the Cheltenham festival that is currently a championship race. |
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The 1986 winner, Dawn Run, is the only horse to have ever won both this race and the leading hurdle event, the Champion Hurdle. |
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At Ludlow yesterday Tony McCoy hit the 50-winner mark for the season with victory on Baba Au Rhum in the opening Bridgnorth Novices' Hurdle. |
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Balding can also strike with Accipiter in the Fabulous Fakes Novices' Hurdle. |
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Advocat continues to attract money for Saturday's Ladbroke Hurdle at Leopardstown, for which 32 horses stood their ground yesterday. |
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Jonjo O'Neill's charge looked a potential worldbeater until disappointing on soft ground in the Cleeve Hurdle back in January. |
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Nokimover can strike for Westbury-On-Severn trainer John O'Shea in the Alphameric Bet Setting System Novices' Hurdle at Sedgefield. |
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Anteros makes plenty of appeal in the Bet With The Ludlow On Course Bookmakers Maiden Hurdle. |
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Also at Warwick, John Tuck is hoping for a good show from Rio's King in the Questor International Novices' Trial Hurdle. |
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Jiver can leave punters dancing for joy at Catterick by claiming the Go Racing At Wetherby Tomorrow Handicap Hurdle. |
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The Irish have not provided a Triumph Hurdle winner since 2002, but Oliver Brady's Ebadiyan heads the raiding party in this year's renewal. |
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Arkose is bidding to win this and I think he has a good chance of landing it in the qualifier for the Pertemps Network Handicap Hurdle. |
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On the Champion Hurdle front, a fit-looking French Holly regilded his reputation with a runaway win in Kempton's Christmas Hurdle. |
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Jp Magnier is set to keep the ride on Rhinestone Cowboy in the Smurfit Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham in March. |
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River Liane now heads to the Cheltenham Festival as a leading fancy for the Fred Winter Juvenile Handicap Hurdle. |
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At Doncaster, Mezereon is the one to be on in the Canaliculatus Juvenile Novices' Hurdle. |
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The versatile BYERLEY BABE must be stronglyfancied to make a successful seasonal debut in the Casey Tarmacadam Mares Hurdle in Wexford. |
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Cannon Fodder should be firing on all cylinders for the Birthday Girls' Celebration Mares' Handicap Hurdle at Towcester. |
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Skint can cash in by seizing the spoils in the Welsh Guards Association Handicap Hurdle. |
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Ted Spread should be hard to beat in the Delta Company 40 Commando Royal Marines Handicap Hurdle at Taunton. |
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Ted Spread should also carry on the good work in the Delta Company 40 Commando Royal Marines Handicap Hurdle at Taunton. |
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Mullins is also mob-handed in the Neptune Investment Management Novices' Hurdle, with 11 of the 28 confirmations housed at Closutton. |
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Cliquey came good at Leicester two weeks ago and can follow up in a similar event, the Bonusfilm Selling Hurdle. |
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Further prestigious races were added to the card during the 1920s, such as the Cheltenham Gold Cup and Champion Hurdle. |
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Colm Murphy's laudable mare Voler La Vedette opened up new options by securing her first victory at three miles in the Christmas Hurdle. |
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Fred Winter Hurdle victress Une Artiste, a shock 40-1 winner last month, the David Nicholson Hurdle at Cheltenham. |
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In April 1947 the French-trained Le Paillon was runner-up, as 2-1 favourite, in the Champion Hurdle. |
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Later on the card Petuntse can complete a three-timer in the BBA Stallion Department Handicap Hurdle. |
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Paul Nicholls gives Whitenzo, who has been disappointing over fences this season, a confidence-booster in the Draglink 2000 Novices' Hurdle. |
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Drumbeater is sent a long way from Philip Hobbs' Somerset yard to Perth but should take the Parks Renault Novices' Handicap Hurdle. |
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Predestine looks worth a bet the Mercedes-Benz of Lincoln Parts Express National Hunt Juvenile Novices' Hurdle at Market Rasen tomorrow. |
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Predestine looks worth a bet the Mercedes-Benz of Lincoln Parts Express 'National Hunt' Juvenile Novices' Hurdle at Market Rasen tomorrow. |
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Tony Martin will saddle Pyromaniac and the horse could light up a huge crowd for the Hurdle. |
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And don't get me started about the offspring of the flakily brilliant Montjeu, like County Hurdle fancy Noble Prince. |
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Jonjo O'Neill is sensibly keeping his exciting recruit Rhinestone Cowboy to novice events, despite him being quoted at 12-1 for the Champion Hurdle. |
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Young Ottoman has been a real star for Victor Dartnall this season and he can go in again in the Draglink 2000 Novices' Hurdle at Exeter today, writes Veritas. |
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And the progressive Hash Brown, runner-up to Klepht at Killarney, might get the better of the progressive Desertmore Stream in the Ballygarry House Hotel Novice Hurdle. |
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Yesterday is usually the last opportunity to fill any remaining holes in the big picture, and one piece was safely placed when Hebridean hosed up in the Adonis Hurdle. |
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Cardinal Flower was also a useful dual purpose performer and during the 1982-83 jumping season won four races including the Rossington Main Novices' Hurdle at Doncaster. |
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Emma Baker's Arquebusier made all to defy a 7lb penalty for winning at Fontwell last week when holding Georgieshore by a head in the Waltham On The Wolds Handicap Hurdle. |
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Noel Meade singled out Advocat, second in the County Hurdle at last year's Cheltenham Festival, as the first string among his three likely runners. |
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Ted Spread has the Sussex Champion Hurdle at Plumpton as a long-term aim, but this 2010 Derby runner has beaten today's rival Entihaa over course and distance this season. |
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Nicky Henderson's horses are in terrific form and the promising Princelet makes most appeal in the Cash Converters Lincoln Juvenile Novices' Hurdle. |
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His Go-Onmyson is fancied for the Creole Serenaders Handicap Hurdle. |
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Francois Doumen is considering the Cleeve Hurdle at Cheltenham on Juanuary 24, as a potential starting point for his top-class stayer Kasbah Bliss. |
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When the weights were published this week for the race that began life as the Irish Sweeps Hurdle, Reizovic and Scottish Boogie were inserted at the top of the market. |
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Brave Inca had been shaken off but Paul was sitting motionless on Harchibald, just waiting to complete one of the cockiest, cheekiest wins in Champion Hurdle history. |
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The opening Lakelands Maiden Hurdle can go to Francis Crowley's Graduand. |
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Nanga Parbat and Marallan, two of Coral's three 8-1 cofavourites ante-post, were eliminated from today's inaugural Fred Winter Juvenile Novices' Handicap Hurdle. |
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Ogee, a shock winner of the Grade 1 Sefton Novices' Hurdle a year ago and third in the William Hill Chase at Cheltenham, is probably the main danger. |
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Jockey Tom Best rewarded trainer Toby Balding and owner Bridget Swire's faith in him by helping Accipiter win the Martell Cognac Sefton Novices' Hurdle at Aintree yesterday. |
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Carberry scored again in the next for a 314-1 brace when bringing John Carr's 20-1 shot Roadmaker from off the pace to win the three-mile Chronicle Handicap Hurdle. |
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It features several Grade I races including the Cheltenham Gold Cup, Champion Hurdle, Queen Mother Champion Chase and World Hurdle, held over four days. |
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Space Ship is an interesting challenge from Robbie Hennessy's Irish yard as he tackles the Donaldson Timber Engineering Handicap Hurdle at Musselburgh. |
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Peddlers Cross, though, had Ascot winner Rite Of Passage back in third place when they met in the Neptune Investments Novices Hurdle at Cheltenham back in March. |
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The absence of My Tent Or Yours certainly takes some of the shine off the Timeform Morebattle Hurdle, but it does leave the way clear for Doyly Carte. |
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