Champ back at Punchestown

Dessie Hughes is looking forward to seeing dual Smurfit Champion Hurdle winner Hardy Eustace return to the track in the Happy New Year Hurdle at Punchestown tomorrow.

And the County Kildare handler is unconcerned that only two others – Tawrific Laois and veteran chaser Native Upmanship – will take on his eight-year-old.