Irish Champion Hurdle Trends

Toshiba Irish Champion Hurdle (Grade 1) (4yo+) Winner €71,500
Soft To Heavy 2m Number of runners: 8

Key factors:

• 6 year olds are the first age group to assess
• Dont discount older group one winners
• Favourites have been out of the frame twice in the last ten years
• 6 winning favourites in the last ten years
• Irish breds are 9 from the last 10
• No British trained winner since 1996
• 8 of the last ten winners finished no worse than third lto
• 8 of the last ten winners were running between 22 and 56 days
• All of the last ten champions had no more than 3 runs that season
• 8 of the last 10 winners were priced no bigger than 11/4