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.

Champion showing by super Solwhit
Sat, 02 May, 2009 - 01:00
Pat Keane

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.

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