WBX.COM FIGHTING FIFTH HURDLE CONTENDER ON TRIAL AT WINCANTON TOMORROW
WBX.COM MEDIA RELEASE
For immediate release, Friday, 5th November, 2009
Two Cheltenham Festival winners and last season’s WBX.COM Fighting Fifth Hurdle third are in opposition tomorrow in the Elite Hurdle at Wincanton.
Celestial Halo, trained by Paul Nicholls, ran a fantastic race when runner-up in the Champion Hurdle last season to earn a mark of 165 and will face Whiteoak, a former winner of the David Nicholson Mares race, who ended the campaign with a sixth place finish in the Aintree Hurdle.
Blue Bajan completes the list of potential WBX.COM Fighting Fifth contenders. He was third in the race last season when staged at Wetherby and was last seen on the racecourse when finishing fourth in a Group 3 at Newmarket.
Victory at Wincanton on Saturday would make any of the trio a live contender for the £100,000 WBX.COM Fighting Fifth Hurdle on November 28th at Newcastle. Paul Nicholls has only saddled two runners at the north-east track before but one of them, Desert Quest, used the Elite Hurdle as a prep race for the 2006 WBX.COM Fighting Fifth Hurdle.
The WBX.COM Fighting Fifth Hurdle is the first leg of the WBX Hurdling Triple Crown which takes in the three Grade 1 2m hurdle races run in Britain each season: The WBX.COM Fighting Fifth Hurdle, The Christmas Hurdle at Kempton and The Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham. Any horse that wins these three races in the same season will be eligible for a £1 million bonus.
The £1 million bonus for winning the WBX Hurdling Triple Crown sees £700,000 awarded to the owner, £150,000 to the trainer, £100,000 to the responsible stable lad or lass and £50,000 to the remainder of the stable.
Iain Turner, PR and Sponsorship Manager for World Bet Exchange said, “This looks like the strongest renewal of the Elite Hurdle I can remember.
With record prize money on offer for the WBX.COM Fighting Fifth Hurdle and the lure of the £1 million bonus I am sure an impressive performance at Wincanton will see connections nominate the Newcastle feature as their first major target of the 2009/10 National Hunt season.
The WBX Hurdling Triple Crown is the biggest bonus in National Hunt racing and with prize money in 2009 for the WBX.COM Fighting Fifth Hurdle of £100,000 I am sure we will see a top quality field going to post in November.
ENDS
Further information from
Iain Turner, WBX.COM PR and Sponsorship Manager,
on 077422 52944 or ijt@wbx.com
www.wbxtriplecrown.com
www.twitter.com/wbxtriplecrown
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