Champagne Fever | |
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Sire | Stowaway |
Grandsire | Slip Anchor |
Dam | Forever Bubbles |
Damsire | Roselier |
Foaled | 26 May 2007[1] |
Country | Ireland |
Colour | Grey |
Breeder | John P. Cahill |
Owner | Susannah Ricci |
Trainer | Willie Mullins |
Record | 21:10-3-3 |
Earnings | £345,955 |
Major wins | |
Champion Bumper (2012) Champion INH Flat Race (2012) Deloitte Novice Hurdle (2013) Supreme Novices' Hurdle (2013) Clonmel Oil Chase (2014) Red Mills Chase (2015) John Meagher Memorial Chase (2016) |
Champagne Fever (foaled 26 May 2007) is an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse who competes in National Hunt racing. He is noted for his front-running style and has won seven of his thirteen races. After beginning his racing career on the amateur point-to-point circuit he became the dominant National Hunt Flat performer in Britain and Ireland in 2012, winning the Champion Bumper and the Champion INH Flat Race. In the following season he was campaigned in novice hurdle races and won two more Grade I races, the Deloitte Novice Hurdle in Ireland and Supreme Novices' Hurdle in England. In his first season over steeplechase fences he won one minor race and finished second in the Arkle Challenge Trophy and in the following year he added win in the Clonmel Oil Chase and Red Mills Chase.