Triumph Hurdle
13:20 Cheltenham Festival
2025-03-14
Winner: £84,405
Runners: 37
Going: Soft
No. of hurdles: 8
Distance: 2m0f179y
The JCB Triumph Hurdle is the opening race on the final day of the Cheltenham Festival. It is a 2m1f Grade 1 contest restricted to four-year-old juvenile hurdlers and is the most prestigious race in the jumps season for this category of jumps horse. It has produced four subsequent Champion Hurdle winners in Clair Soleil, Persian War, Kribensis and Katchit, while 2018 and 2019 Grand National winner Tiger Roll triumphed in 2014. Check the Triumph Hurdle runners and riders ahead of the race and place your bets by clicking the odds buttons.
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TRIUMPH HURDLE PREVIOUS WINNERS
| Year | Horse | Previous Form | Age | Price | Trainer | Jockey |
| 2024 | Majborough | 1-3 | 4 | 6-1 | Willie Mullins | Mark Walsh |
| 2023 | Lossiemouth | 112 | 4 | 11-8F | Willie Mullins | Paul Townend |
| 2022 | Vauban | 21 | 4 | 6-4F | Willie Mullins | Paul Townend |
| 2021 | Quilixios | 1-111 | 4 | 2-1 | Henry De Bromhead | Rachael Blackmore |
| 2020 | Burning Victory | 3216-1 | 4 | 12-1 | Willie Mullins | Paul Townend |
| 2019 | Pentland Hills | 2113-1 | 4 | 20-1 | Nicky Henderson | Nico de Boinville |
| 2018 | Farclas | 22 | 4 | 9-1 | Gordon Elliott | Jack Kennedy |
| 2017 | Defi Du Seuil | 11111 | 4 | 5-2F | Philip Hobbs | Richard Johnson |
| 2016 | Ivanovich Gorbatov | 14 | 4 | 9-2F | Aidan O’Brien | Barry Geraghty |
| 2015 | Peace And Co | 111 | 4 | 2-1F | Nicky Henderson | Barry Geraghty |
TRIUMPH HURDLE KEY TRENDS AND STATS
Key trends
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Last ran between 18 and 55 days ago, ten winners in the last ten runnings
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Won at least 50 per cent of hurdle races, 9/10 (exception still a maiden)
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Top-two finish last time out, 8/10 (six won)
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Adjusted RPR of at least 150, 8/10
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By a Group 1-winning sire, 7/10
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Ran no more than three times over hurdles, 7/10
Other factors
- Five of the last ten winners were undefeated over hurdles (two had just run once).
- Six winners had landed Graded events.
- Since the introduction of the Fred Winter Hurdle in 2005, 17 of the 20 winners have had an SP of 10-1 or shorter.
- The two winners to have finished outside the first two on their most recent start were both owned by J P McManus.
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WHAT HAPPENED LAST YEAR - TRIUMPH HURDLE 2024
This was the race when Majborough really burst onto the scene as a future star with an impressive success under Mark Walsh and was another Festival hero for owner JP McManus. He provided Willie Mullins with his third Triumph win in a row ahead of his stablemate Kargese in second. Salver finished third but the race was dominated by Irish-trained horses, with six of the first seven places going to them.