CHELTENHAM: Cooper the real deal as Our Conor puts opposition to sword

Bryan Cooper, a future champion jockey if ever there was one, guided Dessie Hughes’s Our Conor to a scintillating success in the JCB Triumph Hurdle.

This was a performance on the part of the son of Jeremy that had sheer class written all over it.

He came into the contest with an impeccable record, three from three over flights, and was particularly impressive on his previous outing when slamming Diakali at Leopardstown. But this was easily his toughest test to date and nothing that had gone before could have prepared us for the demolition job that was to come.