Miss proves a hit in Hurdle

What a wizard this Michael Winters is! A year ago he produced Rebel Fitz to land the Guinness Galway Hurdle and returned to Ballybrit yesterday to win the race again, this time with the cracking mare Missunited.

The scenes in the winner’s enclosure twelve months earlier were quite extraordinary, but the celebrations on this occasion were at least a close second.

There aren’t many airs and graces to Winters, he’s just a bloody good trainer. He was achieving something that hadn’t been done since the legendary Paddy Sleator in 1957-58, winning back-to-back Hurdles with two different horses. Sleator did it with Tymon Castle and Knight Errant.