Longer trip to suit Eden

Willie Mullins, fresh from a satisfactory if not spectacular Leopardstown, has a strong hand at Punchestown today and his Touch The Eden gets the nap in the Buy Your 2014 Annual Membership Beginners Chase.

He will be having only a sixth ever start and it is interesting is now asked to travel three miles, in what promises to be testing conditions.

Winner of a bumper in France and a maiden hurdle at Thurles, Mullins clearly thinks this is his game and wasted no time launching him over fences.