All things come to him who waits and yesterday Ruby Walsh waited...and waited...

There aren’t many boxes that Ruby Walsh hasn’t ticked in his remarkable career. The Galway Hurdle was one. Or at least it was until yesterday when Walsh produced what Willie Mullins described as a “Houdini act” to finally land the richest jumps race in Ireland courtesy of Clondaw Warrior.

Walsh’s glittering big-race CV includes two Gold Cups, four Champion Hurdles, three Champion Chases and four World Hurdles. And that’s just the Cheltenham Festival tally.

He’s also won the King George, the Christmas showpiece, a record five times, the Aintree Grand National twice, the Welsh National and the Scottish National.