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The County Hurdle is one of the most difficult races to back a winner at the Cheltenham National Hunt Racing Festival. It is fitting that this race is named after a horse racing legend Vincent O'Brien. The County Handicap Hurdle usually contains a huge and varied field of handicappers. One Cheltenham tip for those needing to recoup losses at the end of four days of action, "Remember there is always Next Year".
Generally there is a major gamble on an Irish horse in this race and you can keep track of any market moves by way of our odds comparison tables, featuring the best odds from the leading online bookmakers.
Check out the County Handicap Hurdle Odds
For those trainers looking to pull off a bit of a Cheltenham Festival betting coup this is one race that the Irish like to have a go at and we shall be looking to identify all the relevant form in our Form preview section.
One of the more difficult races to tip up but in our endless pursuit to find winners at the festival we will be giving this our best shot on out County Hurdle tips preview.
This decades past winners are:
2010 Thousand Stars W Mullins 20/1
2009 Silver Jaro 5 T Hogan 50/1
2007 Pedrobob 9 A Mullins 12/1
2006 Desert Quest 6 P Nicholls 4/1JF
2005 Fontanesi 5 M Pipe 16/1
2004 Sporazene 5 P Nicholls 7/1JF
2003 Spirit Leader 7 Mrs J Harrington 10/1
2002 Rooster Booster 8 P Hobbs 8/1
2000 Master Tern 5 Jonjo O’Neill 9/2F
Following on from last year, we are delighted to announce that we are featuring horse racing tips from Channel Four Racing presenter, Tom Lee.
Tom appears on Channel 4's Morning Line & covers live Racing in the afternoon as well fronting RTE's Racing coverage in Ireland, his Cheltenham Festival Tips and previews of each day's Racing will be available during the Festival and supported with opinions and views from our Racing writers.
View Tom's Racing Tips
We now have the latest bookmakers betting odds for the main Cheltenham Festival Races.
These odds are updated regularily to ensure that you in touch with all the market moves in the build up to the festival.
The four days of the Cheltenham Festival play host to a number of high quality races: