Kerry teenager after first Festival winner: ‘Words can't describe what it's like’

"I'll be going home a very happy lad at the end of the week now, however things go."

The notoriously recalcitrant Labaik put his best foot forward to claim a brilliant victory in the Sky Bet Supreme Novices' Hurdle at Cheltenham.

Having refused to race twice in succession on the Flat, Gordon Elliott's grey looked to have been reformed by a switch to the jumping game when scoring in impressive style at Punchestown and Navan in the autumn.