Constitution Hill Cheltenham 2023 race entries, odds and Festival record
Constitution Hill is the most exciting prospect in National Hunt racing right now and will be expected to confirm his status as the best two-mile hurdler around when he returns to Cheltenham for the Champion Hurdle.
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Constitution Hill’s Cheltenham chances
Ever since he won the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle last March, the Nicky Henderson-trained Constitution Hill has been the talk of jumps racing.
In his victory that afternoon, he broke the course record – leaving his rivals trailing in his wake and winning by more than 20 lengths with a devastating effort once they turned into the home straight.
That was to be Constitution Hill’s final run as a novice. This season he has looked a superstar in his wins in the Fighting Fifth Hurdle at Newcastle and the Christmas Hurdle at Kempton, making the step into open Grade 1 company in seamless fashion.
In five races under Rules, no horse has managed to finish within less than a dozen lengths of this majestic bay gelding. Can anything give him a race come March 14 in the Champion Hurdle?
Constitution Hill to win the Champion Hurdle @ 1/3 with bet365
Constitution Hill's recent record at Cheltenham
Here is Constitution Hill's record:
Constitution Hill’s Cheltenham race entries 2023
Champion Hurdle – 3.30, Tuesday
Given that he has brushed aside all challengers so far, beating a total of 29 opponents in his five starts, there was only ever going to be one Cheltenham Festival target for Constitution Hill this season – the Champion Hurdle.
For a horse of his sheer quality, the two-mile Championship event is a must-have on the CV and there is plenty of speculation already about whether he can emulate the mighty Dawn Run by winning this race and then going on to Gold Cup glory.
For now, dominating his peers over hurdles is the task at hand and, so far, Constitution Hill has made an easy job of it.
He is, say connections and those that have come in close contact, the model professional, calmness exemplified in everything that he does, and it will take something herculean from the likes of second favourite State Man, winner of last month’s Irish Champion Hurdle, to have his measure in the Cheltenham version.
Constitution Hill to win the Champion Hurdle @ 1/3 with bet365
Who will be riding Constitution Hill at Cheltenham?
Nico de Boinville has been the man on board for all of Constitution Hill’s appearances so far and will be in the saddle again at Cheltenham. Stable jockey at Nicky Henderson’s Seven Barrows yard, De Boinville is no stranger to big-race pressure and, like Constitution Hill, he also seems rather unflappable.
He won the Gold Cup on Coneygree as a novice in 2015 and, a year later, steered the resurgent Sprinter Sacre home in the Queen Mother Champion Chase for one of the Cheltenham Festival’s greatest comeback stories. This is his chance to complete a triple crown of the Cotswolds course’s most sought-after prizes.
Who is Constitution Hill’s trainer?
Nicky Henderson is Britain’s leading trainer at the Cheltenham Festival with 72 winners – trailing only to Willie Mullins in the overall standings.
The Seven Barrows supremo has won everything there is to win at the Cotswolds extravaganza, including a record eight Champion Hurdles with See You Then (1985, 1986, 1987), Punjabi (2009), Binocular (2010), Buveur D’air (2017, 2018) and Epatante (2020).
Given that he also holds the record for Arkle victories, it is fair to say that Henderson likes a fast start when it comes to the Cheltenham Festival.
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