{"id":26626,"date":"2024-12-23T09:07:07","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T09:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/?p=26626"},"modified":"2024-12-23T10:28:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T10:28:24","slug":"christmas-hurdle-runners-2024-kempton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/christmas-hurdle-runners-2024-kempton\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Hurdle Cracker as Lossiemouth and Constitution Hill Set To Lock Horns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Horse racing fans will be licking their lips this festive period as the Christmas Hurdle &#8211; a race that&#8217;s been a bit one-sided in recent seasons &#8211; looks all set up to be one of the contests of the season so far. With 2m hurdle &#8216;big guns&#8217; Lossiemouth and last year&#8217;s winner Constitution Hill all still intended Christmas Hurdle runners.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Christmas Hurdle Runners 2024: Lossiemouth and Constitutiuon Hill Set For Boxing Day Battle<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>See below the latest Christmas Hurdle runners ahead of the 2024 Kempton race on Boxing Day (26th December) &#8211; with heavyweights in this division <strong>Lossiemouth <\/strong>and <strong>Constitution Hill<\/strong> both intended entries.<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-list\" style=\"margin-left:0px\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i class=\"sui sui-check-circle-o\" style=\"color:#f11d33\"><\/i> Burdett Road<\/li>\n<li><i class=\"sui sui-check-circle-o\" style=\"color:#f11d33\"><\/i> Constitution Hill<\/li>\n<li><i class=\"sui sui-check-circle-o\" style=\"color:#f11d33\"><\/i> Lossiemouth<\/li>\n<li><i class=\"sui sui-check-circle-o\" style=\"color:#f11d33\"><\/i> Lump Sum<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n<h2><strong>Is Lossiemouth The One To Beat In 2024 Christmas Hurdle?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/betting-sites\/horse-racing\/\">best horse racing betting sites in the UK<\/a> are suggesting that the Willie Mullins-trained <strong>Lossiemouth<\/strong> is the one to beat &#8211; making her the slight favourite in the market.<\/p>\n<p>This super-talented mare will head into the race having lost just one of her 10 career starts and looked as good as ever when winning the Hatton&#8217;s Grace Hurdle at Fairyhouse at the start of the month (watch below). She slammed the 2024 Stayers&#8217; Hurdle winner Teahupoo in that race.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;ll be looking to give owner Rich Ricci and trainer Willie Mullins their third Christmas Hurdle win &#8211; having won the pot twice with Faugheen in 2014 and 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Lossiemouth will also get the handy mares&#8217; allowance from the others in the race &#8211; with many feeling this 7lb weight pull with be the difference.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"LOSSIEMOUTH toys with TEAHUPOO in the Hatton&#039;s Grace!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fxa7msaEAHY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Christmas Hurdle 2024 Race Info<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\udcc5Date: Thursday 26th December 2024<br \/>\n<span class=\"JCzEY tNxQIb\"><span class=\"CSkcDe\">\u231aTime: 1:55pm <\/span><\/span><br \/>\n\ud83c\udfc7Racecourse: Kempton Park<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd04Trip: 2m<br \/>\n\ud83d\udcb7Winning Purse: <span class=\"NA6bn BxUVEf ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"hgKElc\">\u00a3<\/span><\/span>74,035<br \/>\n\ud83d\udcfa TV: ITV \/ Racing TV<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Constitution Hill Makes Long-Awaited Return In 2024 Christmas Hurdle<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Just behind Lossiemouth in the market with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/betting-sites\/\">the best betting sites in the UK<\/a> is the winner of the last two Christmas Hurdles &#8211; <strong>Constitution Hill<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>However, this Nicky Henderson-trained 7 year-old has not been since in a race since &#8211; having many issues (lung infection and bout of colic) that ruled him out for the bulk of 2024 &#8211; including his Champion Hurdle defence at the Cheltenham Festival in March.<\/p>\n<p>A recent racecourse gallop with stablemate Sir Gino, who also an intended Christmas Hurdle runner, didn&#8217;t go to plan and his return run in the Fighting Fifth Hurdle at Newcastle was put on hold.<\/p>\n<p>The reports from the Seven Barrows camp are that Constitution Hill is back to his best at home and horse racing lovers are delighted that he&#8217;ll finally be back on the track.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"CONSTITUTION HILL lands second Christmas Hurdle in facile fashion\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/07DKnsnT-tI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Sir Gino WON&#8217;T Run, But Will Make Chase Debut At Kempton<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Sir Gino<\/strong>, who is also trained by Nicky Henderson did also hold an entry in the Christmas Hurdle, but at the final declaration stage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/horse-racing\">horse racing<\/a> fans won&#8217;t see him in line-up.<\/p>\n<p>However, the good news is that he&#8217;s still set to run over the Festive period and at Kempton &#8211; he&#8217;s entered in the Wayward Lad Novices&#8217; Chase (1:55pm) at Kempton on Friday (27th), where he could take on the Arkle favourite Ballyburn.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"FULL RACE: BetMGM Fighting Fifth Hurdle\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uv0-jUnyM1Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Burdett Road Also An Intended Kempton Runner<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>If Lossiemouth and Constitution Hill weren&#8217;t enough Christmas Hurdle also has further spice with the Greatwood Hurdle winner <strong>Burdett Road<\/strong> is another of the intended Christmas Hurdle runners.<\/p>\n<p>This James Owen-trained 4 year-old will be looking to become the youngest winner of the race since Kerawi in 1997 and since 1969 only Kribensis in 1988 have won the race that young.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"BURDETT ROAD team eye Champion Hurdle after Greatwood glory\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xkhMnre7FRM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horse racing fans will be licking their lips this festive period as the Christmas Hurdle &#8211; a race that&#8217;s been a bit one-sided in recent seasons &#8211; looks all set up to be one of the contests of the season so far. With 2m hurdle &#8216;big guns&#8217; Lossiemouth and last year&#8217;s winner Constitution Hill all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":355,"featured_media":19415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-horse-racing"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Christmas Hurdle Runners: Lossiemouth &amp; Constitution Hill Clash Is On<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Christmas Hurdle runners 2024 still feature Lossiemouth &amp; Constitution Hill in what could be the race of the season (26th Dec)\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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