• Source: 1998 Champion Hurdle

The 1998 Champion Hurdle was a horse race held at Cheltenham Racecourse on Tuesday 17 March 1998. It was the 69th running of the Champion Hurdle.
The winner was J. P. McManus's Istabraq, a six-year-old gelding trained in Ireland by Aidan O'Brien and ridden by Charlie Swan.
Istabraq started the 3/1 favourite and won by twelve lengths from his stable companion Theatreworld, who had finished second to Make A Stand in the previous year, with I'm Supposin in third place. There were no previous Champion Hurdlers in the field but the other runners included Pridwell, Relkeel and Dato Star. The strongly-fancied Shadow Leader was fatally injured in a fall at the final hurdle. Fifteen of the eighteen runners completed the course.




Race details


Sponsor: Smurfit
Purse: £231,800; First prize: £137,420
Going: Good
Distance: 2 miles 110 yards
Number of runners: 18
Winner's time: 3m 49.10




Full result






Winner's details


Further details of the winner, Istabraq

Sex: Gelding
Foaled: 23 May 1992
Country: Ireland
Sire: Sadler's Wells; Dam: Betty's Secret (Secretariat)
Owner: J. P. McManus
Breeder: Shadwell Stud




References

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• 1998 Champion Hurdle
• Champion Hurdle
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• 2000 Champion Hurdle
• Irish Champion Hurdle
• 1952 Champion Hurdle