Champion Hurdle Form

Champion Hurdle form and trends tips.

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Champion Hurdle Form - Key Races

The December Festival Hurdle
This race at Leopardstown has seen five of the last ten winners of the Champion Hurdle.

Champion Hurdle Form - Key Races

Irish Champion Hurdle
The Irish Champion Hurdle in late January is traditionally seen as the top Irish trial but it has been overtaken by The December Festival race. However, the Irish Champion has still thrown up more winners than any single British trial.

2009 Champion Hurdle Result

1 Punjabi 22/1 Trained by N J Henderson Ridden by B J Geraghty
2 Celestial Halo 17/2
3 Binocular 6/4F

2008 Champion Hurdle Result

1 Katchit 10/1 Trained by A King Ridden by R Thornton
2 Osana 9/2
3 Punjabi 25/1

Champion Hurdle 2007 Result

1 Sublimity 16/1 Trained by J Carr Ridden by P A Carberry
2 Brave Inca 11/2
3 Afsoun 28/1

Champion Hurdle Form Trends

The most significant race to consider other than the races already mentioned is the Champion Hurdle from the year before as a significant number of recent winners have gone on and consolidated further victories or improved from past placings.
Horses such as Istabraq, Hardy Eustace, Brave Inca and Punjabi all had form from the previous years Champion Hurdle and the other winners from the last ten runnings all had positive Festival form (Rooster Booster won County Hurdle, Katchit won Triumph Hurdle, Sublimity 4th Supreme Novices)

Champion Hurdle Form Tips

Festival form looks all important here so it might be worth taking a chance with a five year old in the shape of Zaynar.

Whilst only Katchit has won for that age group since Kribensis in the early nineties, he has shown that it is not impossible for a five year old to go on and win the Champion and the style of Zaynar's victory in the Triumph suggests he is a very good horse.

Champion Hurdle Odds

 

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