Katchit was a small[1] bay horse with an irregular white star,[2] bred in Ireland by the Whitley Stud.

[4] King passed the horse on to the D S J P Syndicate and took him back to his stable at Barbury Castle in Wiltshire to be trained as a jumper.

Katchit tracked the leaders before taking the lead approaching the final hurdle, and pulled clear in the closing stages to win by nine lengths.

[1] On his final start of the season he was sent to Aintree Racecourse for the Grade I Anniversary 4-Y-O Novices' Hurdle and won by four lengths from Punjabi and Degas Art.

In December he sustained his first defeat in over a year when third to Harchibald in the Fighting Fifth Hurdle at Newcastle and then finished second to Osana at Cheltenham two weeks later.

On his final start before the 2008 Cheltenham Festival he won the Kingwell Hurdle at Wincanton Racecourse, beating the high-class flat racer Blythe Knight (Diomed Stakes).

[9] In the Champion Hurdle on 11 March he was the 10/1 fifth choice in the betting behind Sizing Europe, Osana, Harchibald and Sublimity.

Alan King later stated that he had "made a mess" of the horse's season by running him under a big weight in a competitive handicap race on his debut.