Hurricane can blow Champion opposition away

LOOKING at the Champion Hurdle at Punchestown today the first thing which strikes me is from where is the pace going to come.

None of the eleven possibilities, to my way of thinking, is a natural front-runner, so maybe it will be Voler La Vedette who will have to go on.

I’m not saying she will want to, but the mare does have a tendency to be quite free and it might be best to let her roll.