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The Ladbrokes World Hurdle is the feature race on day 3 of the 2012 Cheltenham Festival. The World Hurdle is for the stayers as the distance is the only 3 mile hurdle race and this is very much a specialist race for the staying hurdlers. The Ladbrokes World Hurdle is hurdlers version of the Chasers Cheltenham Gold Cup.
The Cheltenham World Hurdle has produced a couple of horses in the last decade who have dominated this race in Inglis Drever and Baracuda. Both horses have been a joy to watch as they both had their little quirks, and we are now in the midst of a new era with Big Bucks aiming for four-in-a-row in 2012 for Paul Nicholls and Ruby Walsh.
Baracuda had to be produced just after the final flight and Inglis Drever would always make it look hard work until they came down the hill the second time where he really took off and powered up the Cheltenham Hill to win in style.
Big Bucks is the current favourite for this years race and will be looking to uphold the great tradition of these great hurdlers in coming back to win this race. Keep in touch with all the latest market moves on our Cheltenham Festival odds comparison service.
Check out the Ladbrokes World Hurdle Odds Today
There is a series of World Hurdle trails staged throughout the National Hunt season and we shall be keeping you informed of the main developments form these races on our form section.
Ladbrokes World Hurdle Form Guide
We shall be putting up our tip for this years race in the week before the 2012 Cheltenham Festival.
The previous winners of the World Hurdle in the 2000s show how dominant three horses have been in this race:
2011 Big Buck's 8 P Nicholls 10/11f
2010 Big Buck's 7 P Nicholls 5/6f
2009 Big Buck's 6 P Nicholls 6-1
2008 Inglis Drever 9 J Howard Johnson 11/8F
2007 Inglis Drever 8 J Howard Johnson 5/1
2006 My Way De Solzen 6 A King 8/1
2005 Inglis Drever 6 J Howard Johnson 5/1
2004 Iris’s Gift 7 Jonjo O’Neill 9/2
2003 Baracouda 8 F Doumen 9/4JF
2002 Baracouda 8 F Doumen 13/8F
2000 Bacchanal 6 N Henderson 11/2
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:
