Nuit triumph in Festival finale

The pain of Cue Card’s defeat in the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle will be a distant memory for Colin Tizzard as Oiseau De Nuit stormed up the hill to win the Johnny Henderson Grand Annual Chase, the final race of the 2011 Cheltenham Festival.

Nicky Henderson had made no secret of the fact he wanted to win the race named in honour of his father and his Tanks For That and Anquetta led the field into the straight, but appeared to burn each other out.