The Punchestown Champion Four Year Old Hurdle is the feature race on the concluding Saturday of the Punchestown Festival.
The race is run over two miles and has Grade 1 status. It is the Punchestown equivalent of the Triumph Hurdle at Cheltenham. It is due to take place in 2013 on the 28th of April.
Our Conor running in the colours of Barry O’Connell for the first time will be hotly fancied to follow up his impressive Cheltenham win. Barry O’Connell retains Danny Mullins as his jockey. This means the rising star of the weigh room, Bryan Cooper, is likely to miss out on the ride this time around.
Punchestown Champion 4 Year Old Hurdle Stats
- Six of the last ten renewals have gone the way of British trained horses.
- Only one favourite have won during the decade but during the last six years the winner has come from the first two in the market.
- Market position of winner during the decade has been 4733122122
- Fate of the favourite 383F15224F
- Eight of the last fifteen winners finished in the first four in the Triumph Hurdle.
Punchestown Champion 4 Year Old Hurdle Winners 2002-2011
| Year | Form | Horse | Trainer | Jockey | OR | Odds |
| 2012 | U22212 | Hisaabaat | Dermot Weld | Andrew Lynch | 142 | 4/1 |
| 2011 | 2113B | Grandouet | Nicky Henderson GB | Barry Geraghty | 144 | 5/2 |
| 2010 | 11222 | Barizan | Evan Williams GB | Jason Maguire | – | 4/1 |
| 2009 | 110 | Jumbo Rio | Edward O’Grady | Andrew Mc Namara | 128 | 5/2 |
| 2008 | 12123 | Won in the Dark | Sabrina Harty | Davy Russell | – | 4/1 |
| 2007 | 1142 | Punjabi | Nicky Henderson GB | Mick Fitzgerald | – | 6/4F |
| 2006 | 110 | Quatre Heures | Willie Mullins | Mick Fitzgerald | – | 9/2 |
| 2005 | 4240 | United | Lucy Wadham GB | Leighton Aspell | – | 6/1 |
| 2004 | 331 | Cherub | Johnjo O’Neill GB | Tony Dobbin | – | 14/1 |
| 2003 | P1201 | Sporazene | Paul Nicholls GB | Ruby Walsh | – | 7/1 |
Punchestown 4 year old Hurdle Preview
