Liverpool Hurdle Tips & Odds

The Liverpool Hurdle will take place on Saturday 15th April, 2023.

Watch the race live on ITV1 and Racing TV which also offer options to stream the race via their streaming services. 

Alternatively, most bookmakers offer a free live horse racing stream allowing you to watch the race after you've placed a bet.

Although several notable names have etched their names onto the roll of honour for the Liverpool Hurdle, there is no name more iconic than that of the Paul Nicholls-trained Big Buck's. 

For a period, Big Buck's was a simply untouchable figure in the staying hurdling division, enjoying an unbeaten period that stretched over several years, and winning four straight renewals of both the Stayers' Hurdle and the Liverpool Hurdle - between 2009 and 2012. 

Injury eventually robbed Big Buck's of his unbeaten record, causing him to miss around 18 months of action, and he was beaten on reappearance at Cheltenham on Trials Day in 2014, before bowing out by finishing fifth in the 2014 Stayers' Hurdle. He retired as one of the greats of the staying hurdling scene, and it will take a special winner of the Liverpool Hurdle to eclipse what he achieved. 

As a Grade 1 contest, the path to the Liverpool Hurdle is a defined one, and the key players in this race regularly head here on the back of a run in the previous month's Stayers' Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival. Prior to that, races to note include the Long Distance Hurdle at Newbury, the Long Walk Hurdle at Ascot, and the Cleeve Hurdle at Cheltenham. 

Peter Scudamore was the superstar jockey of the 1980s, and he managed to win the Liverpool Hurdle a fabulous five times between 1982 and 1992 in a golden period. Scudamore tasted success on Gaye Chance (1982), Bajan Sunshine (1985), Gaye Brief (1986), Mrs Muck (1987), and Pragada (1992) - with each of those wins coming at Ascot.

Martin Pipe changed the history of the sport during his training career, dominating the Trainers' Championship, and he managed to pick up six wins in the Liverpool Hurdle along the way. Pipe claimed victory with Pragada (1992), Sweet Glow (1994), Galant Moss (1999), Maid Equal (2001), and Deano's Beeno (2003) in the famous race.