Annie backers all set for Aintree power play

Annie Power can supplement her emotional and brilliant Cheltenham Festival victory with another major success in the Doom Bar Aintree Hurdle.

Having only entered the Champion Hurdle reckoning after last year's winner and stable companion Faugheen suffered injury, the eight-year-old played the role of super-sub perfectly, dominating her rivals from the front and leaving the usually unflappable Ruby Walsh fighting back the tears.