Hardy Eustace ‘better than last year’ – Hughes

LAST year’s Cheltenham Festival produced one of the most poignant moments in the history of the great event.

After Hardy Eustace had galloped his rivals senseless to win the Champion Hurdle by five lengths, Prestbury Park experienced a type of raw emotion which was quite unprecedented.

It centred on the late Kieran Kelly. A year earlier his boyish smile had lit up the Cotswolds, after he had guided Hardy Eustace to success in the SunAlliance Novices’ Hurdle.