Desert_Orchid_Handicap_Chase

Desert Orchid Handicap Chase

Desert Orchid Handicap Chase

Steeplechase horse race in Britain

The Desert Orchid Handicap Chase is a Grade 2 National Hunt steeplechase in Great Britain which is open to horses aged four years or older. It is run at Kempton Park over a distance of about 2 miles (3,219 metres), and during its running there are twelve fences to be jumped. The race is scheduled to take place each year in late December during the course's Christmas Festival.

Desert Orchid Chase
2023
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The race was first run on 27 December 2006. It is named in memory of Desert Orchid, a popular racehorse who died several weeks earlier. Desert Orchid won Kempton's most prestigious event, the King George VI Chase, four times between 1986 and 1990. His ashes were scattered at the racecourse on the day of this race's inaugural running. The event replaced the Castleford Chase in the National Hunt calendar as a Grade 2 chase over 2 miles. From 2006 to 2022 it was run as a conditions race.

In April 2023 the British Horseracing Authority announced that the race would become a Grade 2 Limited Handicap from the 2023/24 season.[1]

Records

Most successful horse (2 wins):

Leading jockey (3 wins):

  • Barry Geraghty – Petit Robin (2009), Finian's Rainbow (2011), Special Tiara (2014)
  • Nico de Boinville - Sprinter Sacre (2015), Altior (2018), Shishkin (2021)

Leading trainer (5 wins):

  • Nicky Henderson - Petit Robin (2009), Finian's Rainbow (2011), Sprinter Sacre (2015), Altior (2018), Shishkin (2021)

Winners

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  1. The 2010 running was abandoned because of frost

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Package of changes agreed to help strengthen performance of British Jump racing". British Horseracing Authority. 27 April 2023. Retrieved 28 April 2023.

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