Not to be confused with the David
Nicholson Mares’ Hurdle, also known as the OLBG Mares’ Hurdle,
earlier in the week, the Dawn Run Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle is a
recent addition to the Cheltenham Festival programme, having been run
as then sixth race on the Thursday for the first time in 2016. The
race commemorates Dawn Run, the only horse to complete the Champion
Hurdle and Gold Cup double.
In 2016, the contest was sponsored by
the Trull House Stud, which is based in Tetbury, Gloucestershire,
just 45 minutes’ drive from Cheltenham Racecourse, and run as the
Trull House Stud Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle. In any event, the Grade
2 contest is run over 2 miles 1 furlong on the New Course at
Cheltenham and restricted to fillies and mares aged four years and
upwards who, prior to the start of the current season, had not won a
hurdle race. Fittingly, the inaugural running was won by Limini, a
lightly-raced, but much touted five-year-old mare trained by Willie
Mullins, the trainer of Dawn Run.
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