Granville Again

Granville Again
Sire	Deep Run
Grandsire	Pampered King
Dam	High Board
Damsire	High Line
Sex	Gelding
Foaled	20 June 1986
Country	Ireland
Colour	Chestnut
Breeder	Marshall Parkhill
Owner	Godfrey Deacon Eric Scarth
Trainer	Henry Cleary Martin Pipe Len Lungo Muriel Naughton
Record	30:12-6-1
Earnings	£208,474
Major wins
Dovecote Novices' Hurdle (1991) Top Novices' Hurdle (1991) Champion Hurdle Trial (1992) Scottish Champion Hurdle (1992) Champion Hurdle (1993)

Granville Again (20 June 1986 – August 2003) was an Irish-bred racehorse who competed in National Hunt races and recorded his most important win in the 1993 Champion Hurdle. In his early career he won two of his three National Hunt Flat races and was a successful Novice Hurdler, winning the Dovecote Novices' Hurdle and Top Novices' Hurdle as well as finishing second in the Supreme Novices' Hurdle. In the 1991/1992 season, Granville Again won all five of his completed races including the Champion Hurdle Trial and the Scottish Champion Hurdle but fell when second favourite for the Champion Hurdle. In the following season he was beaten in his first three starts but returned to his best form to defeat a strong field in the Champion Hurdle. He never won again and failed to finish in the first three in his last ten races. He was retired from racing in 1996 and died in 2003 at the age of seventeen.

Granville Again was a chestnut horse with a narrow white blaze, bred in Ireland by Marshall Parkhill. He was sired by Deep Run, an outstanding sire of jumpers whose other progeny included Dawn Run and Golden Cygnet. Granville Again's dam, High Board was not a Thoroughbred, being a descendant of the mare Arab Maid, whose pedigree on her mother's side was uncertain. Arab Maid's other descendants included the dual Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Easter Hero. Two years before Granville Again was foaled, High Board had produced his full brother Morley Street, who won the Champion Hurdle in 1991.

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