Cheltenham Champion Hurdle 2008

Smurfit Kappa Champion Hurdle Betting

Phillip Carberry and Sublimity win the Smurfit Kappa Champion Hurdle Challenge Trophy 2007

The famous Cheltenham Champion Hurdle race will be run on the first day of the festival in March with thousands of punters participating in the betting, eager for the Smurfit Kappa Champion Hurdle odds to work in their favour.

The prestigious 24-race Cheltenham Festival, which forms part of the United Kingdom’s National Hunt racing calendar, is one of the world’s most renowned horse racing events. Cheltenham Festival Betting runs into hundreds of millions of pounds over the four-day duration of the festival. The Cheltenham Festival is run in March of every year at the Cheltenham Racecourse in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

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The Cheltenham Champion Hurdle Race

The Champion Hurdle race, run since 1927, is a Grade 1 National Hunt race which is run over a distance of 2 miles 110 yards and was most recently (2007) won by Sublimity with jockey Philip Carberry and trainer John Carr.

There is total prize money of around £360,000 on offer for the Cheltenham Champion Hurdle 2008 – a prestigious horse race open to horses of at least four years of age.

The race never fails to attract a huge crowd who line the stands and banks every year to cheer on their favoured horses and jockeys as they race around the Old Course at Cheltenham, with the difficult final uphill stretch renowned for resulting in some surprise finishes. Champion Hurdle odds are a particularly popular topic of conversation among horse racing followers and punters and the event forms an important and much-anticipated part of the Cheltenham Festival.

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