Katchit

Katchit
Katchit at the 2007 Fighting Fifth Hurdle
SireKalanisi
DamMiracle
DamsireEzzoud
SexGelding
Foaled23 February 2003
CountryIreland
ColourBay
BreederWhitley Stud
OwnerTim Corby
D S J P Syndicate
TrainerMick Channon
Alan King
RecordFlat 16:1-6-2
Hurdle 24:10-5-4
Total 40: 11-11-6
Earnings£599,708
Major wins
Ryman Hurdle (2006)
Finesse Juvenile Novices' Hurdle (2007)
Triumph Hurdle (2007)
Anniversary 4-Y-O Novices' Hurdle (2007)
Kingwell Hurdle (2008)
Champion Hurdle (2008)
Last updated on 30 June 2009

Katchit (23 February 2003 – 9 January 2013) was an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse, the peak of whose flat racing and hurdling career came in 2008 when, against the odds, he won the Champion Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival. Katchit was a moderate flat racer, winning only once in sixteen races. In his first two seasons as a hurdler however, he showed great improvement, winning ten times between September 2006 and March 2008. He won the Triumph Hurdle in 2007 and the Championship a year later. No Triumph Hurdle winner had gone on to win the Champion Hurdle since Kribensis in 1990, and 73 five-year-olds had been beaten in the race since See You Then registered the last five-year-old success in 1985. His later career was affected by injury and he never won again.