United Arab Emirates Embassy Juvenile Hurdle
The Q8 Oils Juvenile Hurdle is a Grade 2 National Hunt race in Ireland. It is run at Leopardstown Racecourse in December over a distance of 2 miles.
The race is normally run on St. Stephen's Day, during the course's Christmas Festival and is restricted to 3 year old horses only. The 2011 running was sponsored by the United Arab Emirates Embassy and in 2010 it was sponsored by the Bord na Móna peat harvesting company and run as the Bord na Mona Fire Magic Juvenile Hurdle. Prior to 2009 it was known as the Durkan New Homes Juvenile Hurdle and in 2009 it was run as the Inforthenight.ie Juvenile Hurdle.
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