1996 Champion Hurdle

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67th Champion Hurdle
Champion Hurdle
Location Cheltenham Racecourse
Date12 March 1996
Winning horse Collier Bay (GB)
Jockey Graham Bradley
Trainer Jim Old (GB)
OwnerWally Sturt
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The 1996 Champion Hurdle was a horse race held at Cheltenham Racecourse on Tuesday 12 March 1996. It was the 67th running of the Champion Hurdle.

Contents

The winner was Wally Sturt's Collier Bay, a six-year-old bay gelding trained in Wiltshire by Jim Old and ridden by Graham Bradley. Collier Bay's victory was a first in the race for jockey, trainer and owner.

Collier Bay, had been unsuccessful flat racer, who had become a good handicapper over hurdles before emerging as a potential champion by defeating Danoli in the Irish Champion Hurdle in January. Starting the 9/1 fourth choice in the betting, he won the Champion Hurdle by two and a half lengths from Alderbrook, the 1995 winner who started the 10/11 favourite. Fourteen of the sixteen runners completed the course. [1]

Race details

Full result

Pos.Marg.Horse (bred)AgeJockeyTrainer (Country)Odds
1 Collier Bay (GB)6 Graham Bradley Jim Old (GB)9/1
2 Alderbrook (GB)7 Richard Dunwoody Kim Bailey (GB)10/11 fav
36 Pridwell (GB)6 Chris Maude Martin Pipe (GB)33/1
4 Danoli (IRE)8Tommy TreacyTom Foley (IRE)5/1
51Squire Silk (GB)7 Jason Titley Andy Turnell (GB)20/1
6Mysilv (GB)6 Jamie Osborne Charles Egerton (GB)7/1
74Boro Eight (GB)10 Richard Johnson Venetia Williams (GB)100/1
8Staunch Friend (USA)8 Peter Niven Mark Tompkins (GB)66/1
911Hotel Minella (GB)9 Charlie Swan Aidan O'Brien (IRE)10/1
105Land Afar (GB)9 Mick Fitzgerald Paul Webber (GB)25/1
118Chief Minister (IRE)7 Tony Dobbin Thomas Dyer (GB)100/1
1218 Right Win (IRE)6 Graham McCourt Richard Hannon, Sr. (GB)25/1
1313Kissair (IRE)5Jonothon Lower Martin Pipe (GB)66/1
144 Absalom's Lady (GB)8 A. P. McCoy David Elsworth (GB)66/1
PUMack The Knife (GB)7David Bridgwater Martin Pipe (GB)33/1
PU Muse (GB)9Paul Holley David Elsworth (GB)100/1

Winner's details

Further details of the winner, Collier Bay

References

  1. "Champion Hurdle result". Racing Post. 12 March 1996. Retrieved 2014-03-25.