Honeysuckle, the Champion Hurdle winner in 2021 and 2022, brought down the curtain on her brilliant racing career with a 17th victory – her fourth in succession at the Festival – as a trademark burst of speed after the final flight carried her to a one-and-a-half length win in the Mares’ Hurdle.
Honeysuckle’s win prompted huge celebrations in the stands but also emotional scenes as she returned to the winner’s enclosure for the final time and thoughts returned to the tragic death of Jack de Bromhead, the son of her trainer, Henry, in a pony-race fall last year.
