Sempre Medici remains on course for Champion Hurdle

Sempre Medici justified short-priced favouritism to win the Red Mills Trial Hurdle at Gowran Park on Saturday.

Rory O’Moore and Sizing Tennessee cut out most of the running in the Grade Two over two miles, but Willie Mullins’ 2-7 market leader always had the measure of that duo.

Bentelimar gained an advantage approaching the second-last flight, at which point Sizing Tennessee fell, but Sempre Medici and Ruby Walsh had more quality, with seven lengths the winning distance.