Champion Hurdle

And the, the, the horse went to Paddy Slater, the great Paddy Slater, who was a brilliant trainer, and the horse turned out to be Another Flash.

He won the Champion Hurdle in 1960.

There you go.

But as a young man, was he always dealing in horses?

Okay, well, Gordon Elliott has been a bit more forthright with his running plans.

So he has said Irish Point, the horse we haven't seen for a year, Lassaw, I think he's finishing second in Champion Hurdle.

He's going to go over fences.

I think he's exciting.

And I just thought Sober Glory, with his hurdling style and the pace he showed, I thought he could be a real player in what probably looks an open enough division.

You know, Lassie Moats won't be getting any quicker.

She won the champion hurdler with cheap pieces.

Don't mean to take anything from her.

Yeah.

Also, he was on Celebrity Mastermind, and he did Champion Hurdle as his specialist subject.

Did he? Yeah, and did very well.

Is he a horse? He

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... won the Champion Hurdle in 2007.

I had a, I had a betting column for the Sunday Independence at the time, and, um, I had him tipped at a big price.

But the...

And also help to break a world record too.

let's touch on some of the jump spaces shall we yep at the cheltenham festival uh try and try and lighten the mood a little bit yes for the first time in years we're going to look at a champion hurdle that doesn't feature constitution hill or a state man and there's no debate about his last month going to go mercer or champion hurdle because obviously she's going to defend her crown and you and i were talking about this beforehand actually lost him at five to two with a number of bookmakers there's no betting from one expect right now for the champion hurdle but there are a few bookmakers but basically everybody else has it priced up five to two seems generous

It's definitely fair.

There's two to one, there's five to two.

They just think that you're mental, so...

But if you were doing a multiple, maybe I wouldn't stop you because I think 5-2 is very, very fair.

If you look at last year's champion hurdle, she absolutely bolted up her record on the track.

She's won the last four festivals, but she's also 5-5 at Cheltenham.

Absolutely, and you don't have to even look that far to Australia to just look at what William Mullins does with his National Hunt horses.

You know, he can come into a Cheltenham Festival and have something entered in the Champion Hurdle, the Gold Cup, the Mayor's Chase, the Arkle, and the Champion.

You just, you, you just, they're good horses.

And I think she's right with Savatieri.