Willie Mullins sets sights on four-miler with Sambremont

Sambremont impressed when justifying 4/5 favouritism and providing Willie Mullins and Ruby Walsh with a first win of 2016 in Fairyhouse yesterday.

Having chased home classy stable-companion Black Hercules on his fencing debut at Navan, the French-bred six-year-old, winner of his maiden hurdle in Tramore on New Year’s Day last year, made virtually all, jumping impeccably.

And, pressed by Mydor between the last two fences, he stretched clear on the run-in to triumph by 16 lengths.