Stayers' Hurdle
15:20 Cheltenham Festival
2026-03-12
Winner: £182,877.5
Runners: 0
Going:
No. of hurdles: 12
Distance:
The Paddy Power Stayers’ Hurdle takes place on day three of the Cheltenham Festival and is a Grade 1 hurdle over three miles. It is the championship contest for long-distance hurdlers and has been won by some of the best hurdlers in the history of jump racing, including Thistlecrack, Big Buck’s, Inglis Drever and Baracouda.
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STAYERS HURDLE PREVIOUS WINNERS
| Year | Horse | Previous Form | Age | Price | Trainer | Jockey |
| 2025 | Bob Olinger | 122-22 | 10 | 8/1 | Henry De Brombhead | Rachel Blackmore |
| 2024 | Teahupoo | 1134-1 | 7 | 5-4F | Gordon Elliott | Jack Kennedy |
| 2023 | Sire Du Berlais | 55P4 | 11 | 33-1 | Gordon Elliott | Mark Walsh |
| 2022 | Flooring Porter | 11PF-2 | 7 | 4-1 | Gavin Cromwell | D E Mullins |
| 2021 | Flooring Porter | 13211 | 6 | 12-1 | Gavin Cromwell | D E Mullins |
| 2020 | Lisnagar Oscar | 239F3 | 7 | 50-1 | Rebecca Curtis | Adam Wedge |
| 2019 | Pailsey Park | 0-1111 | 7 | 11-8F | Emma Lavelle | Aidan Coleman |
| 2018 | Penhill | 14112- | 7 | 12-1 | Willie Mullins | Paul Townend |
| 2017 | Nichols Canyon | 3-312F | 7 | 10-1 | Willie Mullins | Ruby Walsh |
| 2016 | Thistlecrack | 77068 | 8 | EvensF | Colin Tizzard | Tom Scudamore |
| 2015 | Cole Harden | -243218 | 6 | 14-1 | Warren Greatrex | Gavin Sheehan |
STAYERS HURDLE KEY TRENDS AND STATS
Key trends
- Ran no more than four times since August, 9/10
- Aged six to eight, 8/10
- Ran between eight and 16 times over hurdles, 9/10
- Won a Graded hurdle over at least 3m, 8/10
- Top-three finish on last completed start, 9/10
- Previously ran at the festival, 8/10
- Adjusted RPR of at least 165, 8/10
- Finished in first three in all completed hurdle starts that season, 7/10
Other factors
- Five of the 12 Irish winners since the mid-1980s prepped in the Boyne Hurdle at Navan.
- The record of Cleeve Hurdle winners is 1317388.
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WHAT HAPPENED LAST YEAR - STAYERS HURDLE 2025
Rachael Blackmore rode what proved to be her final Cheltenham Festival winner before retirement on the Henry de Bromhead-trained Bob Olinger in the Stayers’ Hurdle. Blackmore delivered Bob Olinger, a now three-time festival winner, perfectly to beat Teahupoo, who races for the same owners in Robcour, by a length and three-quarters. Blackmore, a trailblazing rider in jump racing history, retired from the saddle two months later.