Robbie Hennessy has warned punters not to write off Sublimity’s Champion Hurdle chance despite his below-par display at Leopardstown on Sunday.

Tom Mullins has ruled Asian Maze out of this afternoon’s Ladbrokes World Hurdle at Cheltenham.

BARRY GERAGHTY, at Anfield last night to watch Liverpool play Barcelona in the Champions’ League, confesses to being “puzzled” by Macs Joy’s shock defeat to Newmill in the Red Mills Trial Hurdle at Gowran Park last month.