Nichols Canyon (horse)

Nichols Canyon
Racing silks of Rachel Hood and Graham Wylie
Sire	Authorized
Grandsire	Montjeu
Dam	Zam Zoom
Damsire	Dalakhani
Sex	Gelding
Foaled	11 February 2010
Country	United Kingdom
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Rabbah Bloodstock Limited
Owner	Rachel Hood & Elaine Lawlor Andrea & Graham Wylie
Trainer	John Gosden Willie Mullins
Record	27:12-4-7 17:9-1-5 (Hurdles) 10:3-3-2 (Flat racing)
Earnings	£649,713
Major wins
Noel Murless Stakes (2013) Prix Denisy (2013) Royal Bond Novice Hurdle (2014) Deloitte Novice Hurdle (2015) Mersey Novices' Hurdle (2015) Champion Novice Hurdle (2015) Morgiana Hurdle (2015, 2016) December Festival Hurdle (2015) Stayers' Hurdle (2017)

Nichols Canyon (foaled 11 February 2010) is a British-bred Thoroughbred racehorse. He showed good form on the flat before emerging as an outstanding performer in hurdle races. In his first two seasons of competition he raced on the flat and won three of his ten races including the Noel Murless Stakes and the Prix Denisy as well as finishing second in the St Simon Stakes.

When transferred to Ireland to compete under National Hunt rules he made an immediate impact, winning five races in his novice season including four Grade 1 victories in the Royal Bond Novice Hurdle, Deloitte Novice Hurdle, Mersey Novices' Hurdle and Champion Novice Hurdle. In the following season he won the Morgiana Hurdle, becoming the first horse to defeat Faugheen and then recorded his sixth Grade I success in the December Festival Hurdle.

In the following season he won a second Morgiana Hurdle and was then stepped up in distance to win the Stayers' Hurdle.

Nichols Canyon is a small bay gelding with no white markings bred in the United Kingdom by Rabbah Bloodstock Limited. He was from the second crop of foals sired by Authorized who won the Epsom Derby and the International Stakes in 2007. His other offspring have included Seal of Approval (British Champions Fillies' and Mares' Stakes), Complacent (Spring Champion Stakes), Hartnell (Tancred Stakes) and Ambivalent (Pretty Polly Stakes). Nichols Canyon's dam Zam Zoom was an unraced mare bred by Sheikh Mohammed's Darley Stud, and was a granddaughter of Lucayan Princess, the dam of the multiple Group One winner Luso.