ACC Bank Champion Hurdle

The Champion Hurdle is a Grade 1, two-mile race included as a Punchestown Festival feature race for the first time in 1999. It has a prize fund of €200,000. Winners include champion racer Istabraq, Moscow Flyer, Hardy Eustace and Brave Inca.

The ACC Bank Champion Hurdle will be run on Friday, 25 April – traditionally Ladies’ Day at Punchestown’s National Hunt Festival.

2007 ACC Bank Champion Hurdle

In 2007 a record of nearly 33,000 spectators watched a surprise win of the ACC Bank Champion Hurdle by Harry Rogers-trained Silent Oscar (odds 20/1). Jockeyed by Robbie Power, Silent Oscar looked to be beaten by Macs Joy – the race favourite at odds of 7/4. With a surge ahead just before the finish line, Silent Oscar made it in ahead of Macs Joy by only a neck. Third position went to the popular Hardy Eustace, and fourth was taken by Callows Lake (odds 66/1).

For details of other Grade 1 wins at the 2007 Punchestown Festival, see 2007 Punchestown Grade 1 winners. For a full list of all the 2007 results, see our 2007 National Hunt Festival winners page.

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