1992 Champion Hurdle

The 1992 Champion Hurdle was a horse race held at Cheltenham Racecourse on Tuesday 10 March 1992. It was the 63rd running of the Champion Hurdle.

63rd Champion Hurdle
Cheltenham, 10 March 1992
won by Royal Gait (GB)

The winner was Sheikh Mohammed's Royal Gait, a nine-year-old bay gelding trained in Suffolk by James Fanshawe and ridden by Graham McCourt. Royal Gait's victory was a first in the race for jockey and trainer, and a second for the owner who had won the 1990 running with Kribensis.

Royal Gait had been an outstanding stayer on the flat winning the Group One Prix du Cadran and Prix Royal Oak in 1987 and being controversially disqualified after finishing first in the 1988 Ascot Gold Cup. On what was only his fourth race over hurdles he started at odds of 6/1 and won the Champion Hurdle by half a length and a short head from Oh So Risky and Ruling. Two previous winners of the race, Morley Street and Kribensis took part: Morley Street was made the 2/1 favourite and finished sixth whilst Kribensis finished last. The second favourite Granville Again fell at the penultimate hurdle. Fourteen of the sixteen runners completed the course.[1]

Race details
  • Sponsor: Smurfit
  • Purse: £133,661; First prize: £80,065
  • Going: Good
  • Distance: 2 miles
  • Number of runners: 16
  • Winner's time: 3m 57.40

Full result
Pos. Marg. Horse (bred) Age Jockey Trainer (Country) Odds
1 Royal Gait (GB) 9 Graham McCourt James Fanshawe (GB) 6/1
2 ½ Oh So Risky (GB) 5 Paul Holley David Elsworth (GB) 20/1
3 shd Ruling (USA) 6 Peter Niven Fulke Johnson Houghton (GB) 20/1
4 6 Fidway (IRE) 7 Hywel Davies Tim Thomson Jones (GB) 7/1
5 1 Bank View (GB) 7 M. Duffy Nigel Tinkler (GB) 50/1
6 shd Morley Street (GB) 8 Jimmy Frost Toby Balding (GB) 2/1 fav
7 ¾ Chirkpar (GB) 5 L. Cusack Jim Bolger (IRE) 20/1
8 1½ Propero (GB) 7 Declan Murphy Josh Gifford (GB) 150/1
9 3½ Minorettes Girl (GB) 7 Adrian Maguire Paddy Mullins (IRE) 16/1
10 2 Winnie The Witch 8 David Bridgwater Ken Bridgwater (GB) 50/1
11 2 Royal Derbi (GB) 7 Charlie Swan Neville Callaghan (GB) 50/1
12 10 Mardood (GB) 7 Susan Kersey T. Kersey (GB) 500/1
13 8 Shu Fly (NZ) 8 Jacqui Oliver Sally Oliver (GB) 200/1
14 Kribensis (GB) 8 Richard Dunwoody Michael Stoute (GB) 12/1
UR Valiant Boy (USA) 6 S. Lyons S. Kettlewell (GB) 100/1
Fell Granville Again (GB) 6 Peter Scudamore Martin Pipe (GB) 9/2
  • Abbreviations: nse = nose; nk = neck; hd = head; dist = distance; UR = unseated rider; PU = pulled up; LFT = left at start; SU = slipped up; BD = brought down

Winner's details

Further details of the winner, Royal Gait

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References
  1. "Champion Hurdle result". Racing Post. 10 March 1992. Retrieved 2014-03-30.
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