Harchibald breaks Cheltenham hoodoo

Harchibald’s dramatic defeat in last season’s Champion Hurdle faded in the memory as he made amends with a dominant display to take the totesport Bula Hurdle at Cheltenham.

Completing a big-race double for the stable which claimed the Robin Cook Memorial Gold Cup earlier in the day with outsider Sir OJ, Paul Carberry used exactly the same tactics that had seen Harchibald edged out by Hardy Eustace over course and distance back in March.