The Triple Crown of Hurdling is awarded to a horse that wins all three of the open, two-mile Grade 1 Hurdling races in any given English National Hunt season:

The Fighting Fifth Hurdle, held at the Newcastle Racecourse The Christmas Hurdle, held at Kempton Park Racecourse The Champion Hurdle, held at Cheltenham Racecourse

From 2006 to 2010, the World Bet Exchange (WBX) put up a £1,000,000 bonus for any horse that wins the Triple Crown. WBX offered the prize, the richest in hurdling history.Go Native closes in on £1m payout, mirror.co.uk, 16 February 2010, accessed 28 February 2010. The bonus was split among the winning horse's connections as follows: Owner: £700,000 Trainer: £150,000 Stable Lad: £100,000 Stable Staff: £50,000

Before 2023, the only horse to win all three races in one season was Kribensis, a grey Henbit gelding, trained by Sir Michael Stoute in 1989–90. Since the WBX bonus was introduced, only Punjabi and Go Native came close to claiming the prize, each winning two of the three races. After the bonus was withdrawn, their achievements were matched by My Tent Or Yours and Faugheen. However, in the 2022/2023 season, the breath-taking Bay gelding Constitution Hill, trained by Nicky Henderson and ridden by Nico de Boinville, swept all three races and claimed the Triple Crown for owner Michael Buckley.

Punjabi (2008/09) Punjabi was the first horse who came closest of winning the WBX bonus. After narrowly beating the former champion hurdler Sublimity by a head in the 2008 Fighting Fifth Hurdle, Punjabi fell heavily in the 2008 Christmas Hurdle at the second-last flight while vying for the lead. Three months later, Punjabi held off the late rally of Celestial Halo to win the 2009 Smurfit Kappa Champion Hurdle as a 22/1 outsider.

His trainer, Nicky Henderson, was left to regret what might have been: "He was the forgotten horse. We'd have won a £1 million bonus if he hadn't fallen in the Christmas Hurdle at Kempton. He would have won I think. He was cantering. Anyway this makes up for it." Punjabi's owner, Raymond Tooth, later described Punjabi's fall at Kempton as, "...probably the most expensive fall in the history of racing."

Go Native (2009/10) Without his normal jockey Paul Carberry,Native scores surprising Fighting Fifth win, rte.ie, 28 November 2009, accessed 28 February 2010. Go Native entered the 2009 Fighting Fifth Hurdle as a 25-1 long-shot. Go Native and jockey Davy Condon went on to win the race by 2.5 lengths over Sublimity. Paul Carberry was quoted as saying: It wasn't a surprise to me. It looked tough on paper, but we know how good he is.

Go Native, owned by the Docado Syndicate, entered the Christmas Hurdle as the 5-2 second favourite (behind Binocular),Native prevails in Christmas cracker, belfasttelegraph.co.uk, 26 December 2009, accessed 28 February 2010. and went on to secure a narrow victory over Starluck.Christmas Hurdle Goes Native, skysports.com 26 December 2009, accessed 28 February 2010

A win in the 2010 Cheltenham Festival for Go Native would have made him the first horse to win the WBX bonus. Over £205,000 was wagered on WBX for the 2009-10 Triple Crown to be won, the market was backed in from a high of 49/1 before the first leg to a low of 3.8/1 prior to the Champion Hurdle.All systems go for bonus hunting Go Native , puntinplay.com, 15 March 2010, accessed 21 March 2010. With jockey Paul Carberry set to ride Go Native, Meade said of his horse: He's in great order and I couldn't be happier with him. It's all systems go. He looks great, he had a little breeze out on the track and he was nice and fresh. His last piece of work was pretty good all right, we were very happy with it.Native one in a million, google.com, 18 March 2010, accessed 21 March 2010. Unfortunately, Go Native was unable to clear the second hurdle cleanly and could not recover, finishing the race in 10th place.Disappointment for local runners at Cheltenham , meathchronical.ie, 16 March 2010, accessed 21 March 2010.Bone scans and back specialists turn 999-1 Binocular into a champion, guardian.co.uk, 16 March 2010, accessed 17 March 2010.

Triple Crown leg winners since the 1979/80 season + Winner Groups Winners of the Triple Crown Winners of 2 out of the 3 Triple Crown races that includes the Champion Hurdle Winners of the Fighting Fifth and Christmas Hurdle Race Season Fighting Fifth Hurdle Christmas Hurdle Champion Hurdle 1979/80 Birds Nest Birds Nest Sea Pigeon 1980/81 Sea Pigeon Celtic Ryde Sea Pigeon 1981/82 Ekbalco —Race not run For Auction 1982/83 Donegal Prince Ekbalco Gaye Brief 1983/84 Gaye Brief Dawn Run Dawn Run 1984/85 Browne's Gazette Browne's Gazette See You Then 1985/86 Out of the Gloom Aonoch See You Then 1986/87 Tom Sharp Nohalmdun See You Then 1987/88 Floyd Osric Celtic Shot 1988/89 Floyd Kribensis Beech Road 1989/90 Kribensis Kribensis Kribensis 1990/91 Beech Road Fidway Morley Street 1991/92 Royal Derbi Gran Alba Royal Gait 1992/93 Halkopous Mighty Mogul Granville Again 1993/94 — Muse Flakey Dove 1994/95 Batabanoo Absalom's Lady Alderbrook 1995/96 Padre Mio — Collier Bay 1996/97 Space Trucker — Make A Stand 1997/98 Star Rage Kerawi Istabraq 1998/99 Dato Star French Holly Istabraq 1999/00 Dato Star Dato Star Istabraq 2000/01 Barton Geos — 2001/02 Landing Light Landing Light Hors La Loi III 2002/03 Intersky Falcon Intersky Falcon Rooster Booster 2003/04 The French Furze Intersky Falcon Hardy Eustace 2004/05 Harchibald Harchibald Hardy Eustace 2005/06 Arcalis Feathard Lady Brave Inca 2006/07 Straw Bear Jazz Messenger Sublimity 2007/08 Harchibald Straw Bear Katchit 2008/09 Punjabi Harchibald Punjabi 2009/10 Go Native Go Native Binocular 2010/11 Peddlers Cross Binocular Hurricane Fly 2011/12 Overturn Binocular Rock On Ruby 2012/13 Countrywide Flame Darlan Hurricane Fly 2013/14 My Tent Or Yours My Tent Or Yours Jezki 2014/15 Irving Faugheen Faugheen 2015/16 Identity Thief Faugheen Annie Power 2016/17 Irving Yanworth Buveur d'Air 2017/18 Buveur d'Air Buveur d'Air Buveur d'Air 2018/19 Buveur d'Air Verdana Blue Espoir d'Allen 2019/20 Cornerstone Lad Epatante Epatante 2020/21 Epatante Silver Streak Honeysuckle 2021/22 EpatanteNot So Sleepy dh Epatante Honeysuckle 2022/23 Constitution Hill Constitution Hill Constitution Hill

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See also Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (United Kingdom) Horseracing in Great Britain