65th Champion Hurdle
Champion Hurdle
LocationCheltenham Racecourse
Date15 March 1994
Winning horseFlakey Dove (GB)
JockeyMark Dwyer
TrainerRichard Price (GB)
OwnerJ. T. Price

The 1994 Champion Hurdle was a horse race held at Cheltenham Racecourse on Tuesday 15 March 1994. It was the 65th running of the Champion Hurdle.

The winner was J. T. Price's Flakey Dove, an eight-year-old bay mare trained in Herefordshire by Richard Price and ridden by Mark Dwyer. Flakey Dove's victory was a first in the race for jockey, trainer and owner and the third in the race for a female racehorse after African Sister in 1939 and Dawn Run in 1984.

Flakey Dove was a non-Thoroughbred mare, who had made steady improvement since finishing seventh in the 1993 Champion Hurdle an emerged as a legitimate contender for the following year's renewal with wins in the Champion Hurdle Trial, Cleeve Hurdle and Berkshire Hurdle in early 1994. Starting at odds of 9/1 she won the Champion Hurdle by one and a half lengths from the favourite Oh So Risky with Large Action in third place. Two previous winners of the race took part: Granville Again finished seventh, whilst Morley Street was pulled up after four hurdles. Eleven of the fifteen runners completed the course.[1]

Race details

  • Sponsor: Smurfit
  • Purse: £166,742; First prize: £99,933
  • Going: Good to Soft
  • Distance: 2 miles 110 yards
  • Number of runners: 15
  • Winner's time: 4m 02.30

Full result

Pos. Marg. Horse (bred) Age Jockey Trainer (Country) Odds
1 Flakey Dove (GB) 8 Mark Dwyer Richard Price (GB) 9/1
2 Oh So Risky (GB) 7 Paul Holley David Elsworth (GB) 9/4 fav
3 ¾ Large Action (IRE) 6 Jamie Osborne Oliver Sherwood (GB) 8/1
4 Mole Board (GB) 12 Tom Grantham Jim Old (GB) 40/1
5 5 Absalom's Lady (GB) 6 Simon McNeill David Elsworth (GB) 33/1
6 nk Muse (GB) 7 Mark Richards David Elsworth (GB) 13/2
7 Granville Again (GB) 8 Jimmy Frost Martin Pipe (GB) 10/1
8 Shawiya (IRE) 5 Charlie Swan M. J. P. O'Brien (IRE) 16/1
9 4 Halkopous (GB) 8 Declan Murphy Mark Tompkins (GB) 13/2
10 25 Valfinet (FR) 7 Jonothon Lower Martin Pipe (GB) 33/1
11 7 High Baron (GB) 7 Michael Hourigan Robert Alner (GB) 66/1
Fell Merchant House (IRE) 6 Richard Guest R. J. Weaver (GB) 250/1
Fell Land Afar (GB) 7 Warren Marston John Webber (GB) 25/1
PU Morley Street (GB) 10 Graham Bradley Toby Balding (GB) 16/1
PU King Credo (GB) 9 Adrian Maguire Steve Woodman (GB) 16/1
  • Abbreviations: nse = nose; nk = neck; hd = head; dist = distance; UR = unseated rider; PU = pulled up; LFT = left at start; SU = slipped up; BD = brought down

Winner's details

Further details of the winner, Flakey Dove

  • Sex: Mare
  • Foaled: 1986
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Sire: Oats; Dam: Shadey Dove (Deadly Nightshade)
  • Owner: J. T. Price
  • Breeder: J. T. Price

References

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