Merseyrail Handicap Hurdle

The Merseyrail Handicap Hurdle is a Grade 3 National Hunt handicap hurdle race in England which is open to horses aged four years or older. It is run at Aintree over a distance of about 2 miles and 4 furlongs (4,023 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in April.

Merseyrail Handicap Hurdle
2019
Three Musketeers Point Of Principle Canardier

The race was first run in 1989 and was awarded Grade 3 status in 2014. It was sponsored by Oddbins from 1991 to 2002 and has had various sponsors since then, most recently Merseyrail since 2019.

Winners
Year Winner Age Weight Jockey Trainer
1989 Hill Street 7 10-05 Mark Dwyer Jimmy FitzGerald
1990 Sayparee 5 11-03 Peter Scudamore Martin Pipe
1991 Trefelyn Cone 7 10-05 Peter Scudamore Martin Pipe
1992 Ninepins 5 10-04 Charlie Swan Arthur Moore
1993 Gallateen 5 10–11 Neale Doughty Gordon W. Richards
1994 Kadi 5 11-07 Adrian Maguire David Nicholson
1995 Squire Silk 6 11-00 Simon McNeill Andy Turnell
1996 Outset 6 10-01 Chris Bonner[lower-alpha 1] Micky Hammond
1997 Cadougold 6 10-04 Charlie Swan Martin Pipe
1998 Khayrawani 6 10–10 Fran Berry Christy Roche
1999 Khayrawani 7 11-07 Fran Berry Christy Roche
2000 Quakers Field 7 10-05 Mattie Batchelor Gary Moore
2001 Crazy Horse 8 11–10 Tony Dobbin Len Lungo
2002 Ravenswood 5 10-05 Tom Scudamore Martin Pipe
2003 Patriot Games 9 10–04 Charlie Swan Charlie Swan
2004 Zibeline 7 10-06 Graham Lee Brian Ellison
2005 Genghis 6 10–13 Tony McCoy Peter Bowen
2006 Strangely Brown 5 11-05 Charles Byrnes E McNamara
2007 Two Miles West 6 10-07 Noel Fehily Jonjo O'Neill
2008 Auroras Encore 6 10–12 Tjade Collier Sue Smith
2009 Sunnyhillboy 6 11-00 Tony McCoy Jonjo O'Neill
2010 Sir Harry Ormesher 7 11-01 Robert Thornton Alan King
2011 Russian War 8 10-01 Paul Carberry Gordon Elliott
2012 Attaglance 6 11–12 Harry Haynes Malcolm Jefferson
2013 Minella Forfitness 6 10-03 David Bass Nicky Henderson
2014 Clondaw Kaempfer 6 11-04 Wayne Hutchinson Donald McCain
2015 Theinval 5 11-04 Jeremiah McGrath Nicky Henderson
2016 Party Rock 9 10-08 Sean Quinlan Jennie Candlish
2017 Rather Be 6 11-02 Jeremiah McGrath Nicky Henderson
2018 Jester Jet 8 10-09 Robert Dunne Tom Lacey
2019 Three Musketeers 9 10-05 Jack Kennedy Gordon Elliott
no race 2020 [lower-alpha 2]
  1. amateur jockey
  2. The 2020 running was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom[1]

See also

References
  1. "Coronavirus: Horse racing in Great Britain suspended until end of April". BBC Sport. 17 March 2020.
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