Sizing Europe sets standard

I’VE spent the last few days literally kicking my backside, ever since Sizing Europe won Sunday’s AIG Europe Champion Hurdle at Leopardstown.

I became a big fan of the horse at Punchestown as far back as the middle of October. That day, he fell two out, when travelling like a winner, in a Listed hurdle eventually won in a canter by Aitmatov.

When Sizing Europe then went to Cheltenham in November, and won the Greatwood Handicap Hurdle by four lengths, it seemed to confirm everything we had felt about him after Punchestown.