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Welsh Champion Hurdle
2023
Nemean Lion
Anyharminasking
Fiveonefive
Previous years
2022
Effernock Fizz
Milkwood
Severance
2021
Glory And Fortune
Dans Le Vent
Leoncavallo
2020-2011
2019
Monsieur Lecoq
Le Prezien
Colonel Custard
2018
Silver Streak
Le Prezien
Ozzie The Oscar
2017
The New One
Clyne
Sire De Grugy
2016
Garde La Victoire
Welsh Shadow
Curious Carlos
2015
Silsol
Kayf Moss
Foryourinformation
2014
Saphir Du Rheu
Whisper
Grand Vision
2013
Medinas
Peckhamecho
Tanerko Emery
2011
Oscar Whisky
Black Jack Blues
Tarkari
2002–1995
2002
Vol Solitaire
Copeland
Achilles Wings
2000
Mister Morose
Geos
Potentate
1999
Potentate
Tiutchev
City Hall
1998
Potentate
Cadougold
Relkeel
1997
Potentate
Daraydan
Mistinguett
1996
Absalom's Lady
Backgammon
Rubhahunish
1995
Nemuro
Pridwell
Olympian
The Welsh Champion Hurdle is a National Hunt Limited handicap hurdle race in Wales which is open to horses aged four years or older.
It is run at Ffos Las over a distance of about 2 miles (3,219 metres) and it is scheduled to take place each year in October.
The race was first run in 1969 at Chepstow over 2 miles and continued there until 2002, holding Listed status during the 1980s.
The race was usually run on Easter Monday and prior to the 1990s was usually contested by horses that had performed well in the Champion Hurdle.
However field sizes were consistently small even in its heyday.
The standard of the race declined in the 1990s, and it was run as a handicap in 1993 and from 2000 until 2002.
Unfortunately this change did not result in increased fields and the race was dropped from the calendar in 2003.
In 2010 the race was revived, as a Limited Handicap, scheduled to be run at Ffos Las in February, over 2 miles. However the race was lost to the weather.
The new race did take place in 2011, being won easily by Oscar Whisky, owned by track owner, Dai Walters.[1]
The distance was increased to a distance of 2 miles and 4 furlongs in 2013. The race was moved to a new date in mid-October in 2016 and reverted to 2 miles.[2]
^"Dai Walters' one-track mind points way forward for competitive racing". The Guardian. 7 February 2011. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
^Scully, Mark. "Welsh Champion Hurdle moved to October slot". Racing Post. Retrieved 14 September 2016.[dead link]
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