2008 Champion Hurdle
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| Champion Hurdle | |
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| Location | Cheltenham Racecourse |
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| Date | 11 March 2008 |
| Winning horse | Katchit (IRE) |
| Jockey | Robert Thornton |
| Trainer | Alan King (GB) |
| Owner | D S J P Syndicate |
The 2008 Champion Hurdle was a horse race held at Cheltenham Racecourse on Tuesday 11 March 2008.[1] It was the 78th running of the Champion Hurdle.
The winner was the DSJP Syndicate's Katchit, a five-year-old gelding trained in Wiltshire by Alan King and ridden by Robert Thornton. The victory was the first in the race, for owner, trainer and jockey.
Katchit won at odds of 10/1 by a length from Osana. As of 2017, he remains the only five-year-old to win the race since See You Then in 1985. The field included Sublimity, the winner of the race in the previous year. Fourteen of the fifteen runners completed the course.
- Sponsor: Smurfit Kappa
- Purse: £350,000; First prize: £205,272
- Going: Good to Soft
- Distance: 2 miles 110 yards
- Number of runners: 15
- Winner's time: 4m 08.10