Fred Winter Juvenile Handicap Hurdle 2012

The Fred Winter Juvenile Handicap Hurdle is the sixth race of the second day of the 2012 Cheltenham Festival and is a Grade 3 race run over 2m 110yds with a prize fund of £70,000 and is open to horses aged four years. It is run on the Old Course at Cheltenham over eight hurdles.

The race is named in memory of Fred Winter (1926–2004), who’s record at the Cheltenham Festival included seventeen victories as a jockey, and twenty-eight as a trainer.

In 2011 jockey Paul Townend earned his first Cheltenham win in this race, partnering the Arthur Moore trained What A Charm to a 9/1 win ahead of front-running Kumbeshwar after they battled out to score by a neck.