Inca’s time has arrived

BRAVE INCA is strongly fancied to give Ireland a sixth success in eight runnings of the Smurfit Kappa Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham this afternoon.

The great Istabraq scored three times between 1998-2000, there was no Festival in 2001 because of foot and mouth and Hardy Eustace has done the business for the last two years.

There are very solid reasons for believing it is now Brave Inca's turn. Beaten two necks into third a year ago behind Hardy Eustace and Harchibald, he has looked an even better horse for the most part of this campaign.