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HURRICANE FLY and Ruby Walsh win the Grade 1 BHP Insurance Irish Champion Hurdle for trainer Willie Mullins.
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This afternoon all the action is at Cheltenham racecourse, as the 2014 Cheltenham Festival kicks off.
In the feature race of the day, the Champion Hurdle, record-breaking 19-times Grade 1 winner Hurricane Fly bids to retain his title in what has been billed as the race of the meeting.
He’s up against strong competition in the form of The New One, Jezki, Our Conor and My Tent Or Yours. So who will you be rooting for?
In the meantime, take a look back at some of past winners of the famous race in pictures.
Don’t miss the Champion Hurdle, live on Channel 4 today (Tuesday 11 March) at 3.20pm.
After the sad news that Headley Britannia has been put down after a cross-country schooling accident, H&H looks back at highlights of this special mare’s career from our picture archives.
To celebrate Carl Hester joining the Horse & Hound team as our guest editor of the magazine, we took a look back through the H&H picture archives at interesting moments throughout his career.
Following his leading showjumper win at Horse of the Year Show (HOYS) last October, we visited Billy Twomey at his Nottinghamshire home to see how a normal day pans out for the popular Irish rider. Here are some of the behind-the-scenes pictures that we took on the day.
We have selected 22 top performing mares of the moment to celebrate in pictures.
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A graduate of Exeter University, Amy joined our news team from Redpin Publishing in 2008 as news writer. She was promoted to deputy news editor in May 2013 and became news editor in April 2015. She left Horse & Hound in March 2016 to take up an editorial position in Dubai.
