Relkeel Hurdle

The Relkeel Hurdle is a Grade 2 National Hunt hurdle race in Great Britain which is open to horses aged five years or older. It is run on the New Course at Cheltenham over a distance of about 2 miles and 4½ furlongs (2 miles 4 furlongs and 56 yards, or 4,074 metres), and during its running there are ten hurdles to be jumped. The race is scheduled to take place each year on New Year's Day.

Relkeel Hurdle
2021
Mcfabulous On The Blind Side Thomas Darby

The event is named after Relkeel, a three-time winner of Cheltenham's Bula Hurdle in the late 1990s. The Relkeel Hurdle was given Grade 2 status in 2006.

The race was first run in 1988 as the Sport of Kings Challenge. The race was renamed the Lonesome Glory Hurdle in 1993, after the American-trained challenger who had won the race the previous year.

The current name was adopted in 2000. The race was originally run at Cheltenham's International meeting in early December before being moved to the course's New Year Day fixture from the 2016 running.[1]

Winners
Year Winner Age Jockey Trainer
1988 Abbreviation 5 Peter Hobbs Josh Gifford
1989 Morley Street 5 Jimmy Frost Toby Balding
1990 no race 1990 [lower-alpha 1]
1991 Granville Again 5 Peter Scudamore Martin Pipe
1992 Lonesome Glory 4 Blythe Miller Bruce F Miller
1993 Dance of Words 4 Warren Marston Howard Johnson
1994 Fatack S Curran Jacqui Doyle
1995 no race 1995 [lower-alpha 2]
1996 Karshi Jamie Osborne Henrietta Knight
1997 Daraydan Tony McCoy Martin Pipe
1998 Lady Rebecca Rodney Farrant Venetia Williams
1999 Heros Fatal Tony McCoy Martin Pipe
2000 Mister Banjo 4 Mick Fitzgerald Paul Nicholls
2001 See You Sometime [lower-alpha 3] 6 Mick Fitzgerald Seamus Mullins
2002 Eternal Spring 5 Ruby Walsh James Fanshawe
2003 Crystal d'Ainay 4 Robert Thornton Alan King
2004 Lough Derg 4 Timmy Murphy Martin Pipe
2005 Mighty Man 5 Richard Johnson Henry Daly
2006 Black Jack Ketchum 7 Tony McCoy Jonjo O'Neill
2007 Pouvoir 4 Robert Thornton Alan King
2008 no race 2008 [lower-alpha 4]
2009 Zaynar 4 Barry Geraghty Nicky Henderson
2010 Karabak 7 Tony McCoy Alan King
2011 Oscar Whisky 6 Barry Geraghty Nicky Henderson
2012 Oscar Whisky 7 Barry Geraghty Nicky Henderson
2013 More of That 5 Tony McCoy Jonjo O'Neill
2014 Rock On Ruby 9 Noel Fehily Harry Fry
2016 Camping Ground 6 Leighton Aspell Robert Walford
2017 Agrapart 6 Lizzie Kelly Nick Williams
2018 Wholestone 7 Daryl Jacob Nigel Twiston-Davies
2019 Midnight Shadow 6 Danny Cook Sue Smith
2020 Summerville Boy 8 Jonathan Burke Tom George
2021 McFabulous[lower-alpha 5] 7 Harry Cobden Paul Nicholls
  1. The 1990 edition was abandoned because of snow
  2. The 1995 edition was abandoned because of frost
  3. The 2001 running took place at Newbury
  4. The 2008 edition was abandoned because of heavy rain
  5. The 2021 race was run at Kempton Park after the original Cheltenham fixture was abandoned due to waterlogging

See also

References
  1. "Changes announced to the new season at Cheltenham". Weatherbys. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
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