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Noble Yeats public figure dead at age 10

Noble Yeats

Noble Yeats, an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse, died on April 18, 2026, from colic.

He was an Irish-bred National Hunt runner who won the 2022 Grand National under Sam Waley-Cohen, becoming the first seven-year-old horse to win the race since Bogskar in 1940. Noble Yeats was a bay gelding bred by Kristene Hunter in Ireland.

He was sold as a three-year-old in August 2018 to trainer Donal Hassett for €6,500 and made his racecourse debut on December 1, 2019, finishing second in a point-to-point.

Noble Yeats, 10, Irish Thoroughbred racehorse, colic. (death announced on this date)

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