RACEGOERS will recall the brilliant Quevega (Robin Des Champs) with great affection, and she retired from racing with her name firmly near the top of the list of greatest mares ever to race over hurdles.

Quevega started her racing career in France where she won on the flat, and bowed out having been successful 13 times over the smaller obstacles, winning the Grade 2 David Nicholson Mares’ Hurdle for a sixth time, before failing to overcome Jetson in her attempt to land the Grade 1 World Series Hurdle over three miles at the 2014 Punchestown Festival for a fifth time.