Irish Champion Hurdle Odds - Smart money is on Hurricane Fly

BetNose sniffs out the best odds for the 2012 Irish Champion Hurdle.

Irish Champion Hurdle Odds see the best betting money on Hurricane Fly with Unaccompanied and Thousand Stars also being tipped to win. Irish Champion Hurdle on 29th January, 2012, Sunday at Leopardstown is a Grade I Irish Championship race. This two mile jump race featuring eight hurdles is considered the most prominent of the hurdles races just ahead of Cheltenham Festival. Leading horses, their riders and trainers treat this as a trial for the bigger races in March and April.Irish Champion Hurdle is a seven event programme including supporting races. Frank Ward Solicitors Irish Arkle is a Grade I event, the others being a two miles one furlong race for novices, and a Grade II hurdle for novices. Last year, Hurricane Fly went on to win both the Irish Champion and Cheltenham Champion Hurdles.Istabraq a legend in jump racing has a record four wins in Irish Champion Hurdle.

This horse won the races four years in succession from 1998 to 2001. Istabraq in these four years was under trainer Aidan O’Brien, and ridden by jockey Charlie Swan. In fact, both trainer O’Brien and jockey Swan have respective records of four wins and six wins in Irish Champion Races. Charlie Swan was the successful jockey on two more occasions in 1991 and 2003. Brave Inca when eight years old won this event in 2006 under trainer Colm Murphy. It once again became the winner at age of eleven in 2009 under the same trainer. In 2006, Brave Inca also won the Prestbury Park Champion Hurdle race.In 2011, Irish Champion Hurdle was won by Hurricane Fly when it was seven years of age. This year Hurricane Fly is the most backed horse to win this event, followed by Unaccompanied and Binocular would be hot in pursuit for the racing title. Oscars Well, Voler La Vedette and Thousand Stars would also feature in the final line up to Saturday’s racing events.

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