Baracouda, the brilliant long distance hurdler who twice won the Stayers’ Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival, has died at the age of 28.
He died at owner JP McManus’s Martinstown Stud in Ireland where he had spent his retirement since the end of his racing career with top French trainer Francois Doumen.
He won the Stayers’ Hurdle in 2002 and 2003, when he defeated Iris's Gift and Limestone Lad, during a golden decade of three milers which also saw the emergence of Inglis Drever and Big Buck’s.
