1992 Champion Hurdle

63rd Champion Hurdle Champion Hurdle Cheltenham Racecourse 10 March 1992 Royal Gait (GB) Graham McCourt James Fanshawe (GB) Sheikh Mohammed 1991 1993 The 1992 Champion Hurdle was a horse race held at Cheltenham Racecourse on Tuesday 10 March 1992. It was the 63rd running of the Champion Hurdle. The winner was Sheikh Mohammed's Royal Gait, a nine-year-old bay gelding trained in Suffolk by James Fanshawe and ridden by Graham McCourt. Royal Gait's victory was a first in the race for jockey and trainer, and a second for the owner who had won the 1990 running with Kribensis. Royal Gait had been an outstanding stayer on the flat winning the Group One Prix du Cadran and Prix Royal Oak in 1987 and being controversially disqualified after finishing first in the 1988 Ascot Gold Cup. On what was only his fourth race over hurdles he started at odds of 6/1 and won the Champion Hurdle by half a length and a short head from Oh So Risky and Ruling. Two previous winners of the race, Morley Street and Kribensis took part: Morley Street was made the 2/1 favourite and finished sixth whilst Kribensis finished last. The second favourite Granville Again fell at the penultimate hurdle. Fourteen of the sixteen runners completed the course.https://www.racingpost.com/results/11/cheltenham/1992-03-10/45313 Champion Hurdle result Racing Post 10 March 1992 2014-03-30 Race details Sponsor: Smurfit Purse: £133,661; First prize: £80,065 Going: Good Distance: 2 miles Number of runners: 16 Winner's time: 3m 57.40 Full result Pos. Marg. Horse (bred) Age Jockey Trainer (Country) Odds 1 Royal Gait (GB) 9 Graham McCourt James Fanshawe (GB) 6/1 2 ½ Oh So Risky (GB) 5 Paul Holley David Elsworth (GB) 20/1 3 shd Ruling (USA) 6 Peter Niven Fulke Johnson Houghton (GB) 20/1 4 6 Fidway (IRE) 7 Hywel Davies Tim Thomson Jones (GB) 7/1 5 1 Bank View (GB) 7 M. Duffy Nigel Tinkler (GB) 50/1 6 shd Morley Street (GB) 8 Jimmy Frost Toby Balding (GB) 2/1 fav 7 ¾ Chirkpar (GB) 5 L. Cusack Jim Bolger (IRE) 20/1 8 1½ Propero (GB) 7 Declan Murphy Josh Gifford (GB) 150/1 9 3½ Minorettes Girl (GB) 7 Adrian Maguire Paddy Mullins (IRE) 16/1 10 2 Winnie The Witch 8 David Bridgwater Ken Bridgwater (GB) 50/1 11 2 Royal Derbi (GB) 7 Charlie Swan Neville Callaghan (GB) 50/1 12 10 Mardood (GB) 7 Susan Kersey T. Kersey (GB) 500/1 13 8 Shu Fly (NZ) 8 Jacqui Oliver Sally Oliver (GB) 200/1 14 Kribensis (GB) 8 Richard Dunwoody Michael Stoute (GB) 12/1 UR Valiant Boy (USA) 6 S. Lyons S. Kettlewell (GB) 100/1 Fell Granville Again (GB) 6 Peter Scudamore Martin Pipe (GB) 9/2 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, Royal Gait Sex: Gelding Foaled: 12 April 1983 Country: United Kingdom Sire: Gunner B; Dam: High Gait (High Top) Owner: Sheikh Mohammed Breeder: Ian H Wills References Champion Hurdle 1992 Champion Hurdle Champion Hurdle Category:1990s in Gloucestershire