The Cheltenham Bumper winner for 2017 may well have been sorted yesterday when a half-brother to the versatile Publican and the winning mare, Misspublican, was knocked down to Harold Kirk at Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sales for a world record for a national hunt three-year-old store of €320,000.

JUSTIFIED is fancied to get the better of a fascinating head-to-head with Wild Passion in the Volkswagen Jetta Craddockstown Novice Chase at Punchestown tomorrow.

MOSCOW FLYER, unless he’s gone completely over the top or falls, faces a simple task in the Kerrygold Champion Chase at the opening stage of the Punchestown Festival this afternoon.

Shay Barry is not worried about the prospect of good ground at Cheltenham tomorrow ahead of Justified’s run in the Letheby & Christopher Supreme Novices’ Hurdle.