FORMER National Hunt stalwart Michael Scudamore will have a race named in his honour at next month's Open meeting at Cheltenham.

The £20,000 Michael Scudamore Intermediate Handicap Hurdle run on Friday, November 14 will commemorate the late jockey.

Scudamore, who died in July aged 81, partnered eight winners at the Festival between 1950 and 1964 and also enjoyed a famous triumph aboard Oxo in the 1959 Grand National at Aintree.

As a trainer, Scudamore sent out Fortina's Palace to win the Grand Annual Chase at the Festival in 1970 and he also saddled Bruslee to win what is now run as the Paddy Power Gold Cup in 1974.

His grandson, Bromash trainer Michael Scudamore, said: "It will be a great honour for the family to have a race named after my grandfather at The Open and I am sure it is something he would have been very, very proud of.

"He rode a Cheltenham Gold Cup winner and enjoyed his biggest training successes there. He absolutely adored the place and it will be a very special moment for all the family.

"After he retired, the only racecourses he really went to were Hereford and Cheltenham - it held so many great memories for him."