My Tent Or Yours

My Tent Or Yours (foaled 16 March 2007) is an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse who competes in National Hunt racing and has finished second in three editions of the Champion Hurdle.

He was sired by Desert Prince, one of the best European-trained colts of his generation who won the Irish 2,000 Guineas, Prix du Moulin and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes in 1998.

[2] His dam Spartan Girl won one minor race[3] and came from a very well-regarded family, being a half-sister of Conduit and a close relative of Petrushka, Spectrum and Millenary.

[4] As a foal in November 2007 My Tent Or Yours was consigned by the Irish National Stud to the Goffs sale where he was sold for €2,000 to Tiger Bloodstock.

Ridden by A. P. McCoy, he started 10/11 favourite and took the lead approaching the final furlong and won very easily by nine lengths from Rainbow Haze.

On his final appearance of the season, the gelding was moved up in class for the Grade II Champion Standard Open NH Flat Race at Aintree Racecourse in April.

Starting at odds of 5/1, he took the lead approaching the final furlong but was overtaken in the closing stages and beaten by the four-year-old The New One, to whom he was conceding six pounds.

[8] On 29 December he started 4/7 favourite for a minor novice event at Newbury but was never able to reach the lead, and was beaten four and a half lengths by his stable companion Chatterbox.

My Tent Or Yours tracked the leader before taking a narrow lead at the last but was overtaken by the rallying Champagne Fever on the run-in and beaten half a length into second place.

The gelding fought against McCoy' attempts to restrain him in the early stages, but moved into the lead two hurdles out and won by three lengths from the mare Cockney Sparrow.

The two leading contenders drew away from the other runners in the straight with My Tent Or Yours gaining the advantage in the last 100 yards to win by half a length[16] after what Daily Telegraph described as "the best hurdle race run in England or Ireland this season".

[17] My Tent Or Yours prepared for the 2014 Champion Hurdle with a run in a two-mile flat race on the Polytrack surface at Kempton on 19 February.

The gelding ended his season in the Scottish Champion Hurdle (a handicap race) at Ayr Racecourse on 12 April.

He started favourite, but after taking the lead two hurdles out he was overtaken in the closing stages and finished third behind Cockney Sparrow and Court Minstrel, to whom he was conceding six and sixteen pounds respectively.