|}The Relkeel Hurdle is a Grade 2 National Hunt hurdle race in Great Britain which is open to horses aged five years or older. It is run on the New Course at Cheltenham over a distance of about 2 miles and 4½ furlongs (2 miles 4 furlongs and 56 yards, or 4,074 metres), and during its running there are ten hurdles to be jumped. The race is scheduled to take place each year on New Year's Day.
The event is named after Relkeel, a three-time winner of Cheltenham's Bula Hurdle in the late 1990s. The Relkeel Hurdle was given Grade 2 status in 2006.
The race was first run in 1988 as the Sport of Kings Challenge. The race was renamed the Lonesome Glory Hurdle in 1993, after the American-trained challenger who had won the race the previous year.
The current name was adopted in 2000. The race was originally run at Cheltenham's International meeting in early December before being moved to the course's New Year Day fixture from the 2016 running.[1]
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| Year | Winner | Age | Jockey | Trainer | |||
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| 1988 | Abbreviation | 5 | Peter Hobbs | Josh Gifford | |||
| 1989 | Morley Street | 5 | Jimmy Frost | Toby Balding | |||
| no race 1990 | |||||||
| 1991 | Granville Again | 5 | Peter Scudamore | Martin Pipe | |||
| 1992 | Lonesome Glory | 4 | Blythe Miller | Bruce F Miller | |||
| 1993 | Dance of Words | 4 | Warren Marston | Howard Johnson | |||
| 1994 | Fatack | S Curran | Jacqui Doyle | ||||
| no race 1995 | |||||||
| 1996 | Karshi | Jamie Osborne | Henrietta Knight | ||||
| 1997 | Daraydan | Tony McCoy | Martin Pipe | ||||
| 1998 | Lady Rebecca | Rodney Farrant | Venetia Williams | ||||
| 1999 | Heros Fatal | Tony McCoy | Martin Pipe | ||||
| 2000 | width=160px | Mister Banjo | 4 | width=180px | Mick Fitzgerald | width=180px | Paul Nicholls |
| 2001 | 6 | Mick Fitzgerald | Seamus Mullins | ||||
| 2002 | Eternal Spring | 5 | Ruby Walsh | James Fanshawe | |||
| 2003 | Crystal d'Ainay | 4 | Robert Thornton | Alan King | |||
| 2004 | Lough Derg | 4 | Timmy Murphy | Martin Pipe | |||
| 2005 | Mighty Man | 5 | Richard Johnson | Henry Daly | |||
| 2006 | Black Jack Ketchum | 7 | Tony McCoy | Jonjo O'Neill | |||
| 2007 | Pouvoir | 4 | Robert Thornton | Alan King | |||
| no race 2008 | |||||||
| 2009 | Zaynar | 4 | Barry Geraghty | Nicky Henderson | |||
| 2010 | Karabak | 7 | Tony McCoy | Alan King | |||
| 2011 | Oscar Whisky | 6 | Barry Geraghty | Nicky Henderson | |||
| 2012 | Oscar Whisky | 7 | Barry Geraghty | Nicky Henderson | |||
| 2013 | More of That | 5 | Tony McCoy | Jonjo O'Neill | |||
| 2014 | Rock On Ruby | 9 | Noel Fehily | Harry Fry | |||
| 2016 | Camping Ground | 6 | Leighton Aspell | Robert Walford | |||
| 2017 | Agrapart | 6 | Lizzie Kelly | Nick Williams | |||
| 2018 | Wholestone | 7 | Daryl Jacob | Nigel Twiston-Davies | |||
| 2019 | Midnight Shadow | 6 | Danny Cook | Sue Smith | |||
| 2020 | Summerville Boy | 8 | Jonathan Burke | Tom George | |||
| 2021 | McFabulous | 7 | Harry Cobden | Paul Nicholls | |||
| 2022 | Stormy Ireland | 8 | Danny Mullins | Willie Mullins | |||
| 2023 | Marie's Rock | 8 | Nico de Boinville | Nicky Henderson | |||
| 2024 | Bob Olinger | 9 | Rachael Blackmore | Henry de Bromhead |