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Jezki
Jezki (foaled 8 March 2008) is an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse who competes in National Hunt racing. After showing promise in National Hunt Flat races he won five times as a novice hurdler in the 2012/2013 season, with his victories including the Fishery Lane Hurdle, Royal Bond Novice Hurdle, Future Champions Novice Hurdle and Evening Herald Champion Novice Hurdle. In the following season he won the WKD Hurdle and the Hatton's Grace Hurdle before taking the 2014 Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham Racecourse and following up with a win in the Racing Post Champion Hurdle. In the following season he was beaten in his first three races by Hurricane Fly and finished fourth to Faugheen in the Champion Hurdle before winning the Aintree Hurdle over two and a half miles and defeating Hurricane Fly in the World Series Hurdle. Background Jezki is a bay horse with a white star and snip bred in Ireland by Gerard M. McGrath. He is one of the best horses sired by Milan who won the St Leger Stake ...
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2014 Champion Hurdle
The 2014 Champion Hurdle was a horse race held at Cheltenham Racecourse on Tuesday 11 March 2014. It was the 84th running of the Champion Hurdle. The winner was J. P. McManus's Jezki, a six-year-old gelding trained in Ireland by Jessica Harrington, who was winning the race for the first time. The winning jockey was Barry Geraghty, who had won the race on Punjabi in 2009. The only previous winner of the race was Hurricane Fly, who had won in 2011 and 2013. A. P. McCoy opted to ride My Tent Or Yours rather than Jezki. All nine of the runners had previously won at Grade I level. Our Conor was fatally injured in a fall at the third hurdle. Race details * Sponsor: Stan James * Purse: £400,000; First prize: £238,051 * Going: Good to Soft * Distance: 2 miles 110 yards * Number of runners: 9 * Winner's time: 3m 45.25 Full result * Abbreviations: nse = nose; nk = neck; hd = head; dist = distance Winner's details Further details of the winner, Jezki. * Sex: Gelding * Foaled: ...
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Faugheen
Faugheen ( foaled 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 best performance on a racecourse came in the 2016 Irish Champion Hurdle for which he was rated the best two-mile hurdler of the 21st century. His career started over Point-to-point fences as a four-year-old and was sent racing under National Hunt rules in the 2013/2014 season where he emerged as a leading Novice hurdler, winning all of his races including the Dorans Pride Novice Hurdle, Cheltenham Novices Hurdle and Herald Champion Novice Hurdle acquiring the nickname "The Machine" in the process. Faugheen continued his undefeated run in the next season out of Novices company when he was kept over hurdles, winning his first three races in Britain with victories at Ascot and a month later in the Christmas Hurdle, followed with a win at the highest level in the Champion Hurdle, defeating a strong field that ...
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Jessica Harrington
Jessica Jane Harrington (née Fowler, born 12 February 1947) is an Irish professional horse trainer. Harrington specialises in National Hunt racing but has also had success in Flat racing. Personal life Harrington was born in London. Her father was Brigadier Bryan Fowler, an officer in the British Army, and her mother was Mary Walford. Bryan Fowler was originally from Kells, County Meath and served with the Royal Artillery in both World Wars, and married Mary, who was a widow, in 1944. She had two children from her previous marriage. Harrington had an older brother, John Fowler, who was also a racehorse trainer and died in an accident in 2008 at their family estate in Summerhill, County Meath. Bryan Fowler left the army in 1949 and returned with his family to Ireland where Harrington spent her childhood. She did not go to school until she was aged twelve, being tutored. She then went to school at Hatherop in England for four years before going to a Finishing school in France. ...
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Champion Hurdle
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 at Cheltenham over a distance of about 2 miles and ½ furlong (2 miles and 87 yards, or ), and during its running there are eight hurdles to be jumped. The race is the last leg of the Triple Crown of Hurdling and is scheduled to take place each year on the opening day of the Cheltenham Festival in March. As its title suggests, the Champion Hurdle is the most prestigious hurdling event in the National Hunt calendar. Its list of winners features many of the most highly acclaimed hurdlers in the sport's history, and several of these, such as National Spirit, Istabraq, Hatton's Grace, Persian War and Lanzarote, have had races named in their honour. As part of a sponsorship agreement with the online gambling operator Unibet, the race is now known as the Unibet ...
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Istabraq Hurdle
The Istabraq Hurdle is a Grade 3 National Hunt racing, National Hunt Hurdling (horse race), hurdle race in Ireland which is open to Horse racing, horses aged four years or older. It is run at Tipperary Racecourse over a distance of about 2 miles (3,219 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in early October. The race was first run in 1997 and prior to 2006 was known as the John James McManus Memorial Hurdle. From 2007 to 2013 it was run as the Tipperary Hurdle. Since the 2018 running the race has been sponsored by the Horse & Jockey Hotel. It now takes place at a meeting which features both jump and flat races, and it is held on the same afternoon as the Concorde Stakes (Ireland), Concorde Stakes. Records Most successful horse (3 wins): * Istabraq – ''1997,1998,1999'' Leading jockey (5 wins): * Mark Walsh (jockey), Mark Walsh – ''Captain Cee Bee (2011,2012), Plinth (2015), Jezki (2017), Saint Roi (2020)'' Leading Horse trai ...
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Aintree Hurdle
The Aintree 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 at Aintree over a distance of about 2 miles and 4 furlongs (), and during its running there are eleven hurdles to be jumped. The race is scheduled to take place each year in early April. The event was established in 1976, and it was originally run over 2 miles and 5½ furlongs. It was shortened to its present length in 1988. The race is staged during the three-day Grand National meeting, and was traditionally contested on the final day, Saturday. In 2013 it was moved to the opening day of the meeting, Thursday. The Aintree Hurdle often features horses which ran previously over a shorter distance in the Champion Hurdle, and the last to win both events in the same year was Buveur d'Air in 2017. The 2010 running was named in memory of Dick Francis (1920–2010), a former jockey who was closely associa ...
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Fishery Lane Hurdle
The Fishery Lane Hurdle is a Grade 3 National Hunt hurdle race in Ireland which is open to horses aged four years. It is run at Naas over a distance of about 2 miles (3,218 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in November. The race was first run in 2006, was awarded Listed status in 2007, then raised to Grade 3 in 2012. It was run as a Grade 2 race as a one-off in 2020. Records Leading jockey (3 wins): * Mark Walsh - '' Early Doors (2017), Espoir d'Allen (2018), Brazil (2022) '' Leading trainer (4 wins): * Edward O'Grady - '' Catch Me (2006), Torphichen (2009), Alaivan (2010), Kitten Rock (2014) '' * Gordon Elliott - '' Miss Tata (2016), Surin (2019), Call Me Lyreen (2020), Teahupoo (2021) '' Winners See also * Horse racing in Ireland * List of Irish National Hunt races References *Racing Post ''Racing Post'' is a British daily horse racing, greyhound racing and sports betting publisher which is published in print a ...
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Royal Bond Novice Hurdle
The Royal Bond Novice 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 Fairyhouse over a distance of about 2 miles (3,219 metres), and during its running there are ten hurdles to be jumped. The race is for novice hurdlers, and it is scheduled to take place each year in late November or early December. The event is named after Royal Bond, a successful National Hunt horse trained by Arthur Moore in the early 1980s. It was established in 1994, and it has held Grade 1 status throughout its history. It is usually staged on the same afternoon as two other top-grade races – the Drinmore Novice Chase and the Hatton's Grace Hurdle. Records Leading jockey (4 wins): * Paul Carberry – ''Gambolling Doc (1994), Wild Passion (2004), Iktitaf (2005), Muirhead (2007)'' * Charlie Swan – ''Thats My Man (1995), Istabraq (1996), Liss A Paoraigh (2000), Like-a-Butterfly (2001)'' * Ru ...
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World Series Hurdle
The Champion Stayers 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 over a distance of about 3 miles (4,828 metres), and during its running there are fourteen hurdles to be jumped. The race is scheduled to take place each year during the Punchestown Festival in late April. The race was known as the Tipperkevin Hurdle in the mid 1990s, and it was renamed the Champion Stayers Hurdle in 1997. It was sponsored by Ballymore Properties for much of the following decade, and was renamed the World Series Hurdle. Ladbrokes began supporting the race in 2008. It reverted to its former name in 2017. The Champion Stayers Hurdle is the Irish equivalent of Britain's Stayers' Hurdle, and the last horse to win both races in the same year was Anzum in 1999. Records Most successful horse since 1995 (4 wins): * Quevega – ''2010, 2011, 2012, 2013'' Leading jockey since 1995 (5 win ...
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Evening Herald Champion Novice Hurdle
The Bective Stud 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 over a distance of about 2 miles ½ furlong (2 miles and 100 yards, or ), 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 event was formerly open to horses aged four or older, and for a period it was sponsored by BMW. The minimum age was raised to five in 1992, and Country Pride took over the sponsorship in 1993. The race was promoted from Grade 2 to Grade 1 status in 1998. The '' Evening Herald'' became the usual sponsor of the race in 2000. The event was subsequently backed by VC Bet, but the Evening Herald returned as sponsor in 2009. The race was rebranded as the Herald Champion Novice Hurdle in 2013 after the sponsoring newspaper ...
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WKD Hurdle
The WKD Hurdle is a Grade 2 National Hunt hurdle race in Ireland which is open to horses aged four years or older. It is run at Down Royal over a distance of about 2 miles and half a furlong (2 miles and 100 yards, or 3,310 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in late October or early November. The race was first run in 2001. It was awarded Grade 3 status in 2006 and further raised to Grade 2 status in 2010. The race was previously run as the Anglo Irish Bank Hurdle. Records Leading jockey since 2001 (5 wins): * Paul Carberry – ''Scottish Memories (2002), Khetaam (2003), Iktitaf (2006), Aitmatov (2007), Monksland (2012)'' Leading trainer since 2001 (6 wins): * Noel Meade – ''Scottish Memories (2002), Khetaam (2003), Iktitaf (2006), Aitmatov (2007), Jered (2008), Monksland (2012)'' Winners See also * Horse racing in Ireland * List of Irish National Hunt races References *Racing Post ''Racing Post'' is a British da ...
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Hatton's Grace Hurdle
The Hatton's Grace 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 Fairyhouse over a distance of about 2 miles and 4 furlongs (4,023 metres), and during its running there are twelve hurdles to be jumped. The race is scheduled to take place each year in late November or early December. The event is named after Hatton's Grace, a three-time winner of the Champion Hurdle trained by Vincent O'Brien. It was established in 1994, and it has held Grade 1 status throughout its history. It is usually staged on the same afternoon as two other top-grade races – the Royal Bond Novice Hurdle and the Drinmore Novice Chase. Records Most successful horse (3 wins): * Limestone Lad – ''1999, 2001, 2002'' * Solerina – ''2003, 2004, 2005'' * Apple's Jade - ''2016, 2017, 2018'' * Honeysuckle - ''2019, 2020, 2021 '' Leading jockey (3 wins): * Charlie Swan – ''Danoli (1994), Istabr ...
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