Mares Hurdle
Mares Hurdle
The Mares’ Hurdle is a Grade 1 hurdle run over 2m4f and restricted to mares.
It is a relatively new addition to the meeting, having first been staged in 2008.
It commemorates David ‘the Duke’ Nicholson, who won four races at the Festival as a jockey and 17 as a trainer.
Irish champion trainer Willie Mullins has dominated the Mares’ Hurdle, having won nine of the 14 runnings including the six in a row with star mare Quevega.
Tuesday 15.20 | 4yo+ | Grade 1
2 miles 4 furlongs | 10 hurdles | Old Course
Weight: 10st 7lb (4yo) / 11st 5lb (5yo+)
Prize money: £120,000 | 1st: £67,524
PREVIOUS WINNERS
| YEAR | WINNER | SP |
| 2024 | Lossiemouth | 8/13f |
| 2023 | Honeysuckle | 9/4jf |
| 2022 | Marie’s Rock | 18/1 |
| 2021 | Black Tears | 11/1 |
| 2020 | Honeysuckle | 9/4 |
| 2019 | Roksana | 10/1 |
| 2018 | Benie Des Dieux | 9/2 |
| 2017 | Apple’s Jade | 7/2 |
| 2016 | Vroum Vroum Mag | 4/6f |
| 2015 | Glens Melody | 6/1 |
| 2014 | Quevega | 8/11f |
| 2013 | Quevega | 8/11f |
| 2012 | Quevega | 4/7f |
| 2011 | Quevega | 5/6f |
| 2010 | Quevega | 6/4f |
| 2009 | Quevega | 2/1f |
| 2008 | Whiteoak | 20/1 |
