Champion showing by super Solwhit

THE rapidly improving Solwhit got the better of Punjabi at the end of a pulsating Rabobank Champion Hurdle at Punchestown last evening.

This is an old cliche, but it is no great exaggeration to say that racing was the real winner at the end of a mighty contest.

The old warrior Hardy Eustace tried to make all, but was at the head of affairs on sufferance and it was always only a question of when the big guns made their move.