Punchestown day one tips: Sir Gerhard can crown season in style
Sir Gerhard was an impressive winner of the Ballymore Novices' Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival. Picture: Healy Racing
Sir Gerhard can end his novice season over hurdles with a perfect record by taking the Bective Stud Champion Novice Hurdle, the first Grade One of the five-day Punchestown festival.
Winner of last season’s Champion Bumper at Cheltenham, he made a winning debut over hurdles at Leopardstown’s Christmas meeting and followed up in a Grade One back at the same venue. Sent off an odds-on favourite for the Ballymore Novices’ Hurdle on the back of those efforts, he won a shade comfortably.
