A two-time Cheltenham Festival winner, Lossiemouth will look to complete a Prestbury Park hat-trick in 2025, with the six-year-old set to go for glory in the Champion Hurdle.
Despite a fall in the Irish Champion Hurdle, the Willie Mullins-trained mare is expected to appear at the Festival once again.
Name: Lossiemouth |
Age: 6 |
Weight: 11-5 |
Trainer: Willie Mullins |
Winnings: £517,986 |
Cheltenham Festival wins: 2 |
Runs | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
12 | 9 | 2 | 0 |
Lossiemouth is a six-year-old with several years of high-class racing still ahead of her.
She made her debut in France as a three-year-old back in 2022, before enjoying an excellent four-year-old season in the UK and Ireland last year.
The mare has won nine races over the course of her career, in France, Ireland and England.
If, as expected, Lossiemouth runs in the Champion Hurdle, she is likely to carry a weight of 11-5.
The mare was the same weight when she won the Close Brothers Mares’ Hurdle in 2024.
Lossiemouth has failed to win just three of her 12 starts to date, with her first defeat coming at Leopardstown in 2023 before she fell at the same venue in February 2025.
Her second place to Constitution Hill in the Christmas Hurdle at Kempton is the only other loss, registering six successive wins between March 2023 and December 2024.
Her first win at the Cheltenham Festival came in 2023, when she reversed the form with Gala Marceau in her Prestbury Park debut to claim victory in the Triumph Hurdle.
Having beaten Love Envoi by nine and a half-lengths in the International Hurdle at Cheltenham’s January 2024 meeting, Lossiemouth enjoyed another Festival success two months later.
Mullins’ charge enjoyed a smooth success in the Mares’ Hurdle, finishing comfortably clear of Telmesomethinggirl, in what amounted to a procession in the Cotswolds.
Despite a crashing fall four-from-home in the Irish Champion Hurdle, Mullins has suggested that Lossiemouth is still expected to run at the Cheltenham Festival again.
After finishing second to Constitution Hill at Kempton on Boxing Day, the six-year-old looked to be running with more energy at Leopardstown, before her fall.
Mullins said afterwards that the plan for Lossiemouth was always to run in the Champion Hurdle and ‘unless there was a change of heart’ from the owners, that was still the case.
Lossiemouth was bred in France by Sarl Elevage Des Vallons & M Ian Kellit and subsequently owned by S Haynes-Kellitt, Elevage Des Vallons and Y Fouin until November 2022.
She then switched owner to wine mogul Mrs Susannah Ricci, who has been involved in racehorse ownership along with her husband Rich - who also part-owns Lossiemouth - for many years.
Like all of Susannah Ricci’s Irish horses, Lossiemouth is trained by 17-time Irish National Hunt champion trainer Willie Mullins, at his Closutton stable.
Mullins began training in 1988 and has gone on to become one of the greatest of all time in his field, breaking the 100-winner mark at the 2024 Cheltenham Festival.
Lossiemouth is certainly in good hands with Mullins, who trained a record 10 winners at the 2022 Cheltenham Festival and has won almost all of the top races in the jumps calendar, including both the English and Irish Grand Nationals.
Lossiemouth was given an opening Hurdles mark of 140, after showcasing her exceptional talent over the obstacles in two juvenile runs at Fairyhouse and Leopardstown, but quickly rose up the rankings.
She now has an official rating of 160, making her the joint-fourth best hurdler in Ireland, and looks likely to see that rise over the coming years.
Lossiemouth has already racked up £517,986 in prize money, with £464,984 coming via race wins.
Mullins said it was ‘very uncharacteristic’ for Lossiemouth to fall as she did in the Irish Champion Hurdle.
Although it wasn’t ideal preparation, it was confirmed soon after, by Patrick Mullins, that the six-year-old was ‘a bit stiff, but fine’.
If all goes well in the build up to the Festival, it looks likely that the mare will try to make it a hat-trick at Cheltenham by taking on State Man and Constitution Hill once again.