Champagne Fever

Champagne Fever
Champagne Fever at Leopardstown in February 2013.
Sire	Stowaway
Grandsire	Slip Anchor
Dam	Forever Bubbles
Damsire	Roselier
Foaled	26 May 2007
Country	Ireland
Colour	Grey
Breeder	John P. Cahill
Owner	Susannah Ricci
Trainer	Willie Mullins
Record	21:10-3-3
Earnings	£345,955
Major wins
Champion Bumper (2012) Champion INH Flat Race (2012) Deloitte Novice Hurdle (2013) Supreme Novices' Hurdle (2013) Clonmel Oil Chase (2014) Red Mills Chase (2015)

Champagne Fever (foaled 26 May 2007) is an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse who competes in National Hunt racing. He is noted for his front-running style and has won seven of his thirteen races. After beginnin his racing career on the amateur point-to-point circuit he became the dominant National Hunt Flat performer in Britain and Ireland in 2012, winning the Champion Bumper and the Champion INH Flat Race. In the following season he was campaigned in novice hurdle races and won two more Grade I races, the Deloitte Novice Hurdle in Ireland and Supreme Novices' Hurdle in England. In his first season over steeplechase fences he won one minor race and finished second in the Arkle Challenge Trophy and in the following year he added win in the Clonmel Oil Chase and Red Mills Chase.

Champagne Fever is a grey gelding bred in Ireland by John P. Cahill. He was sired by Stowaway, who won the Gordon Stakes and the Great Voltigeur Stakes in 1997. Stowaway has made some impact as a National Hunt stallion, also siring Hidden Cyclone, winner of four Graded races in Ireland. Champagne Fever's dam Forever Bubbles was unraced.

As a three-year-old gelding, Champagne Fever was sent to the Tattersalls Ireland sale in June 2010 and was bought for €17,500 by Michael O'Mara. He was subsequently acquired by Rich and Sussanah Ricci and sent into training with Willie Mullins in County Carlow.