Champion Hurdle now looks far more interesting

Well, the dust has settled somewhat on Faugheen’s shock defeat behind Nichols Canyon in the Morgiana Hurdle at Punchestown last Sunday, a result that seemed to leave both Willie Mullins and Ruby Walsh totally perplexed.

Indeed, Walsh, who is more than capable of talking the hind legs off a donkey, struggled to put two sentences together when interviewed on At The Races, after the contest.

The lead into the Morgiana had seen Mullins unusually bullish, so good apparently good was Faugheen’s work.