Notre Pere ploughed through the mud to claim the Punchestown Guinness Gold Cup and earn a 10-1 quote with totesport for the equivalent race at Cheltenham next March.

NOTRE PERE jumped and galloped his rivals silly to take the Guinness Gold Cup by a whopping 13 lengths at Punchestown last night.

Grangeclare Lark, who beat Shuil Aris by a short head at Fairyhouse, emphatically confirmed the placings on 3lbs worse terms in the Bewleys’ Hotels Irish Stallion Farms EBF Mares Hurdle at Punchestown yesterday.