Ruby Walsh: I’m happy with my Champion Hurdle tip and, if I’m wrong, so be it

I suppose I can say now that I have had a fair idea that I was going to pick Faugheen over Hurricane Fly for the Champion Hurdle for a while.

I just wanted to make sure everything went right and it has gone right. I suppose when Blue Heron won in Wincanton it boosted the Kempton form, as he had him 17 lengths back in third that day. That made me think the form was starting to stack up.

There was something else that Willie said the other morning when we were talking about it. We were talking about the form and I said: “Faugheen hasn’t beaten anything” and he said “That’s not Faugheen’s fault”. And he’s right. He’s beaten what’s been put in front of him.