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Harchibald won an all weather flat 12 furlong race at Dundalk at 11/4 this evening.

Nothing wrong with that, thanks, did he hit the front with 10 mts to go?

Champion Hurdle odds



Harchibald wins Champion Hurdle warm-up





THE Cheltenham hill may be markedly different to the straight at Dundalk, but Harchibald showed he was in good heart ahead of the Champion Hurdle on Tuesday, March 11 when winning his festival warm-up on the Flat on Friday evening.

Immediately after the race, Ladbrokes left the Noel Meade-trained nine-year-old unchanged at 8-1 for the day one highlight, a static approach adopted by most firms, but Paddy Power cut him to 11-2 from 7-1.
Drawn wide in the Hanratty Oils Race around 1m4f of the blustery all-weather circuit,Declan McDonogh was forced to travel wide in the midfield in the early exchanges off the pace set by Silent Wind, before managing to secure a position closer to the rail in sixth along the back straight.

Entering the straight, it looked for a moment as if the gaps wouldn't appear, but McDonogh soon found room and hit the front over a furlong out, keeping on well to hold off the fast-finishing pair of Emmpat and Kalderon.

Fellow top-class hurdler Al Eile stayed on well at the end but was soundly beaten by the 3-1 winner.