- Source: 2005 Champion Hurdle
The 2005 Champion Hurdle was a horse race held at Cheltenham Racecourse on Tuesday 15 March 2005. It was the 75th running of the Champion Hurdle.
The race was won for the second consecutive year by Laurence Byrne's Hardy Eustace, an eight-year-old gelding trained in Ireland by Dessie Hughes and ridden by Conor O'Dwyer.
Hardy Eustace started the 7/2 joint-favourite and led throughout to win by a neck from Harchibald, with Brave Inca in third. The other runners included Rooster Booster (winner of the race in 2003), Back In Front, Macs Joy, Al Eile and Intersky Falcon. All fourteen runners completed the course.
Race details
Sponsor: Smurfit
Purse: £300,000; First prize: £174,000
Going: Good
Distance: 2 miles 110 yards
Number of runners: 14
Winner's time: 3m 51.50
Full result
Winner's details
Further details of the winner, Hardy Eustace
Sex: Gelding
Foaled: 5 April 1997
Country: Ireland
Sire: Archway; Dam: Sterna Star (Corvaro)
Owner: Laurence Byrne
Breeder: Patrick Joyce
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- 2005 Champion Hurdle
- Champion Hurdle
- 2024 Champion Hurdle
- KPMG Champion Novice Hurdle
- Irish Champion Hurdle
- 2023 Champion Hurdle
- 2004 Champion Hurdle
- Punchestown Champion Hurdle
- 2014 Champion Hurdle
- 2000 Champion Hurdle