Three winners of the race in its present format have gone on to victory in the Champion Hurdle.

And the fact that he was able to finish sixth in the 1991 Champion Hurdle confirms a telling turn of foot.

The Scottish Champion Hurdle represented a huge step up in class.

A return to steeplechasing in late 1993 brought no success and he was pulled up in the 1994 Champion Hurdle.

He has been described as the best hurdler never to win the Champion Hurdle.

Dane, riding like a demon, won the Champion Hurdle by a head.

The event serves as an important trial for the Champion Hurdle in March.

Perhaps if I'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle, he might have sold.

Following the race he was made favourite for the Champion Hurdle.

Persian War returned to his best in the Champion Hurdle, run this year on very heavy ground.