Boston Bob back in business

Off the track since April, Boston Bob returned in triumph to justify 8/11 favouritism in the Follow Punchestown On Facebook Hurdle at Punchestown, sparking a New Year’s Eve double for Willie Mullins and Ruby Walsh.

Back over hurdles in the wake of crashing falls at both Cheltenham and Punchestown in the spring, the Bob Back gelding oozed class, cruising through to head Un Beau Matin at the final flight before forging clear to score emphatically by ten lengths.

Mullins explained: “I didn’t expect anything like that performance, because it’s been hard to get good work into him. But that was a nice performance. We might just stay hurdling with him for now, before he goes back over fences.