Racing Welfare Handicap Hurdle

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The Racing Welfare Handicap Hurdle, is a Grade 3 National Hunt hurdle race in Great Britain which is open to horses aged four years or older. It is run at Ascot over a distance of about 2 miles (1 mile 7 furlongs and 152 yards, or 3,156 metres). It is a handicap race, and it is scheduled to take place each year in December.

The race was first run in Great Britain in 2001 having been staged as The Ladbroke Handicap Hurdle in January at Leopardstown in Ireland prior to that.[1] The Irish race continued under a different sponsored title and is now run as the Coral.ie Hurdle. The Ascot race was awarded Grade 3 status in 2013. It continued to be run as The Ladbroke Handicap Hurdle until 2015, and the 2016 running was titled the Wessex Youth Trust Handicap Hurdle.

Winners

Year Winner Age Weight Jockey Trainer

2001 Marble Arch 5 10–11 Norman Williamson Hughie Morrison
2002 Chauvinist 7 10-00 Norman Williamson Nicky Henderson
2003 Thesis 5 11-02 Brian Crowley Venetia Williams
2005 (Jan) Tamarinbleu[1] 5 10-11 Tony McCoy Martin Pipe
2006 (Jan) Desert Air[1] 7 10-09 Tom Scudamore Martin Pipe
2006 (Dec) Acambo 5 11-09 Timmy Murphy David Pipe
2007 Jack The Giant 5 11-00 Mick Fitzgerald Nicky Henderson
2008 Sentry Duty 6 11-09 Barry Geraghty Nicky Henderson
no race 2009 [2]
no race 2010 [2]
2011 Raya Star 5 10-01 Wayne Hutchinson Alan King
2012 Cause of Causes 4 10–13 Davy Condon Gordon Elliott
2013 Willow's Saviour 6 10-05 Harry Skelton Dan Skelton
2014 Bayan 5 11-05 Davy Condon Gordon Elliott
2015 [3] Sternrubin 4 10-10 Richard Johnson Philip Hobbs
Jolly's Cracked It 6 11-03 Noel Fehily Harry Fry
2016 Brain Power 5 11-11 David Mullins Nicky Henderson
2017 Hunters Call 7 10-03 Jack Kennedy Olly Murphy

1 The race was run at Sandown Park in January in the 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons due to the closure of Ascot Racecourse for redevelopment.
2 The race was abandoned in 2009 and 2010 due to snow.
3 The 2015 renewal had a dead heat finish.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Armytage, Marcus (December 18, 2001). "The first ever British running of the Ladbroke Hurdle". London: telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-02-12.
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