Racing Welfare Handicap Hurdle

The Racing Welfare Handicap Hurdle, is a Grade 3 National Hunt hurdle race in Great Britain which is open to horses aged four years or older. It is run at Ascot over a distance of about 2 miles (1 mile 7 furlongs and 152 yards, or 3,156 metres). It is a handicap race, and it is scheduled to take place each year in December.

The race was first run in Great Britain in 2001 having been staged as The Ladbroke Handicap Hurdle in January at Leopardstown in Ireland prior to that. The Irish race continued under a different sponsored title and is now run as the Coral.ie Hurdle. The Ascot race was awarded Grade 3 status in 2013. It continued to be run as The Ladbroke Handicap Hurdle until 2015, and the 2016 running was titled the Wessex Youth Trust Handicap Hurdle.

¹ The race was run at Sandown Park in January in the 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons due to the closure of Ascot Racecourse for redevelopment.
² The race was abandoned in 2009 and 2010 due to snow.
³ The 2015 renewal had a dead heat finish.

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