County Hurdle
14:10 Cheltenham Festival
2025-03-14
The County Hurdle is a fiercely competitive handicap hurdle run over 2m1f as the second race on day four of the Cheltenham Festival. Until a change in the running order in 2009 it was staged as the final race of the festival and was known as the getting-out stakes, as it offered punters a final change to find a winner. It has witnessed some major public gambles over the years. Check the County Hurdle runners and riders ahead of the race and place your bets by clicking the odds buttons.
No runners
PREVIOUS WINNERS
| Year | Horse | Previous Form | Age | Price | Trainer | Jockey |
| 2023 | Faivoir | 5-4P | 8 | 33-1 | Dan Skelton | Bridget Andrews |
| 2022 | State Man | 2-F1 | 5 | 11-4F | Willie Mullins | Paul Townend |
| 2021 | Belfast Banter | 312562 | 6 | 33-1 | Peter Fahey | K C Sexton |
| 2020 | Saint Roi | 23-51 | 5 | 11/2 | Willie Mullins | Barry Geraghty |
| 2019 | Ch’tibello | 0-5692 | 8 | 12/1 | Dan Skelton | Harry Skelton |
| 2018 | Mohaayed | 31-023 | 6 | 33-1 | Dan Skelton | Bridget Andrews |
| 2017 | Arctic Fire | 2-1142- | 8 | 20-1 | Willie Mullins | Paul Townend |
| 2016 | Superb Story | 444-12 | 5 | 8-1 | Dan Skelton | Harry Skelton |
| 2015 | Wicklow Brave | F-580P | 6 | 25-1 | Willie Mullins | Paul Townend |
| 2014 | Lac Fontana | 38-141 | 5 | 11-1 | Paul Nicholls | Daryl Jacob |
KEY TRENDS AND STATS
- Key trends
- At least one top-three finish in last two starts, 8/10
- Aged five or six, 7/10
- Officially rated 134-141, 7/10
- Carried no more than 11st 1lb, 7/10 (two of the exceptions trained by Willie Mullins)
- No previous festival form, 7/10
- Ran no more than nine times over hurdles, 6/10
Other factors
- There have been eight winning novices since 1996.
- Ireland has won five of the last ten runnings, including four for Willie Mullins. Dan Skelton accounts for four of the last five British-trained winners.
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WHAT HAPPENED LAST YEAR - COUNTY HURDLE 2023
FAIVOIR, a well beaten eleventh the previous year, lined up off a 9lb lower mark following a couple of lesser efforts this campaign, just edged a tight battle after the last with the runner-up Pied Piper who was third in the Triumph a year earlier. Filey Bay, tried in a tongue-tie, finished second in the Betfair Hurdle off 8lb lower on much quicker ground put in a respectable performance to take third, with Sharjah, a two-time Champion Hurdle runner-up back in fourth.