Katchit | |
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Sire | Kalanisi |
Dam | Miracle |
Damsire | Ezzoud |
Sex | Gelding |
Foaled | 23 February 2003 |
Country | Ireland |
Colour | Bay |
Breeder | Whitley Stud |
Owner | Tim Corby D S J P Syndicate |
Trainer | Mick Channon Alan King |
Record | Flat 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.