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2008 WBX.COM Fighting Fifth Hurdle Day
Following inclement weather and the subsequent abandonment of racing at Newcastle seven days previously, the 2008 WBX.COM Fighting Fifth Hurdle saw a small but select field of six face the starter at Wetherby for the rescheduled running that witnessed Nicky Henderson’s Punjabi make his seasonal reappearance.
Always travelling powerfully, the five-year-old, and odds on favourite, kept on strongly to the line to beat 2007 Champion Hurdle winner Sublimity by a head and in the process claim the first leg of the WBX Hurdling Triple Crown.
Andrew Turnell’s Blue Bajan, impressive winner of the Swinton Handicap Hurdle at Haydock in May, was 3 ½ lengths further back in third while Irish raider Beau Michael plugged on to claim fourth place prize money ahead of Harper Valley and Arcalis.
It was another exciting and high class renewal of the WBX.COM Fighting Fifth Hurdle which, weather permitting, will return to Newcastle racecourse in 2009.
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If you want any of these pictures or any others from the 2008 WBX.COM Fighting Fifth Hurdle Day then please contact Iain Turner on ijt@wbx.com or 00447742252944
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