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Champion Bumper
Champion Bumper (Weatherbys Champion Bumper), Grade 1 National Hunt Flat race over 2m 87y at the Cheltenham Festival, first run 1992, no obstacles jumped, record 14 wins for Willie Mullins, 2026 winner The Mourne Rambler.
Cheltenham Festival
Cheltenham Festival, the four-day National Hunt jump racing meeting each March at Prestbury Park, Gloucestershire; 28 races including the Gold Cup (first run 1924) and Champion Hurdle (1927); over 200,000 attendees and £274 million economic impact (2022).
Cheltenham Gold Cup
Cheltenham Gold Cup: Grade 1 weight-for-age steeplechase at Cheltenham, first run 12 March 1924, won by Red Splash; also a 1819 Cleeve Hill flat race. Run 3m2½f, 22 fences, New Course; Golden Miller won five straight 1932-36.
Grand National
Grand National, also Grand Liverpool Steeplechase, is a handicap steeplechase run since 1839 at Aintree, Liverpool, over 4m2½f and 30 fences; won 2024 and 2026 by I Am Maximus.
Grand Steeple-Chase de Paris
Grand Steeple-Chase de Paris (Défi des Haras), France's premier Group 1 steeplechase, run each May at Auteuil over 6,000 m with 23 fences; first run 1874, prize €820,000.
Grande Course de Haies d'Auteuil
Grande Course de Haies d'Auteuil, the French Champion Hurdle: Group 1 staying hurdle race over 5,100 m for 5yo+, first run 1874 at Auteuil, Paris; 16 obstacles; recent dual winner Losange Bleu.
Great Eastern Steeplechase
The Great Eastern Steeplechase, also known as the Onkaparinga Steeplechase, is a jumps horse race first run in 1876 at Oakbank Racecourse in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia.
Great Northern Steeplechase
Great Northern Steeplechase, also Great New Zealand Steeplechase, a New Zealand jumps horse race first run in 1885 at Ellerslie over about 6,400 m and 25 fences; renamed and moved to Te Aroha in 2025.
Greenall Whitley Gold Cup
The Greenall Whitley Gold Cup was a handicap steeplechase run at Haydock Park in Merseyside, England, during the 1990s, named for the Greenall Whitley brewery.
Irish Grand National
Irish Grand National: 3m5f handicap steeplechase run on Easter Monday at Fairyhouse, Co Meath, first run 1870 (winner Sir Robert Peel). Records: Tom Dreaper 10 wins, Pat Taaffe 6, Brown Lad 3; Arkle 1964; Freewheelin Dylan 150-1 in 2021.
Iroquois Steeplechase
The Iroquois Steeplechase is an annual steeplechase horse race meeting held on the second Saturday in May at Percy Warner Park in Nashville, first run in 1941.
King George VI Chase
King George VI Chase, a Grade 1 three-mile steeplechase at Kempton Park run on Boxing Day since 1937; Kauto Star won it a record five times, Desert Orchid four; second leg of jumps Triple Crown before the Cheltenham Gold Cup.
Maryland Hunt Cup
Maryland Hunt Cup: annual four-mile timber steeplechase over 22 solid fences in Worthington Valley, Maryland, run since 1894 for amateur riders; $100,000 purse, course record 8:15 (Vintage Vinnie, 2022), called America's toughest timber race.
Nakayama Grand Jump (中山グランジャンプ)
Nakayama Grand Jump (中山グランドジャンプ), a J-G1 steeplechase each April at Nakayama Racecourse over 4,260 m turf; founded 1999 from the 1934 Nakayama Daishogai; Oju Chosan won six times, Ecoro Duel the 2025-2026 champion.
National Hunt flat race
National Hunt flat race (bumper): a British/Irish Jump-rules race with no obstacles for unraced, late-maturing jump-bred horses aged seven or younger; limited to three runs, a bridge to hurdling or chasing.
National Hunt racing
National Hunt racing, or jumps racing, is British and Irish Thoroughbred racing over hurdles and steeplechase fences, plus flat bumpers; originated in Ireland (1752 Buttevant-Doneraile), culminating in the Cheltenham Festival and Grand National.
Point-to-point (steeplechase)
Point-to-point (pointing) is amateur steeplechase racing over fences for hunting horses and amateur riders, run November–June on temporary countryside courses in Britain and Ireland; rooted in the 1752 Buttevant–Doneraile steeple-to-steeple race.
Prix La Haye Jousselin
Prix La Haye Jousselin, French Group 1 steeple-chase at Auteuil, Paris, 5,500 m for 5-year-olds and up, run each November. Founded 1880 as Prix de la Croix de Berny; Al Capone II won it seven times, 1993–1999.
Steeplechase (horse racing)
Steeplechase, also called jump or National Hunt racing, is Thoroughbred horse racing over fences, ditches, and water jumps. It began with Ireland's 1752 Buttevant-Doneraile race and includes the Grand National.
Triple Crown of Hurdling
Triple Crown of Hurdling: unofficial British National Hunt series of the Fighting Fifth, Christmas, and Champion Hurdles; won by Kribensis, Buveur d'Air, and Constitution Hill.
Virginia Gold Cup
The Virginia Gold Cup is an annual American steeplechase horse race, a four-mile timber race run each spring at Great Meadow in The Plains, Virginia, first held in 1922.