Philip Hobbs has decided to put Fingal Bay away for the season and not send him to Punchestown for the Cathal Ryan Memorial Champion Novice Hurdle on Friday.

Always Waining made Aintree history when winning the John Smith’s Topham Chase for the third year in a row and in the process ended a barren spell for trainer Peter Bowen.

Trainer Willie Mullins agonised long and hard over which race to send Boston Bob this week and came down on the side of today’s Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle.