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The John Durkan Memorial Chase is a Grade 1 National Hunt chase in Ireland. It is run over a distance of 2 miles and 4 furlongs at Punchestown in December.The race was first run in 1968 and it was run over a distance of 2 miles until 1973. It has been run over today’s distance since then apart from in 1993 and 1994 where if was run over 2 miles and 5 furlongs.