Punchestown the real winner at Cheltenham

Fourteen successes for Ireland at the Cheltenham festival but the real winners — at least going forward — were surely Punchestown.

You’d imagine the track will engage in its usual advertising and publicity drive for their festival on April 23-27, but it won’t have to do much, because this is a meeting that is set to sell itself.

Once the dust had settled on Prestbury Park there could only be one name on the lips of the Punchestown people and that was Sprinter Sacre.