Punchestown tips: Impervious can crown season in style
CLASSY OPERATOR: Impervious got the better of Allegorie De Vassy in the Mrs Paddy Power Mares' Chase at Cheltenham and can confirm that form at Punchestown on Friday. Picture: Healy Racing
Friday’s feature at Punchestown, the Grade One Paddy Power Champion Hurdle, is a prime example of the difficulty of this meeting, and trying to factor in quite how much the season may have taken out of a horse.
On form, State Man ought to be long odds-on and borderline unopposable, but it’s difficult not to conclude that he was a shade disappointing last time out, when finishing runner-up in the Champion Hurdle. It’s a strange sentiment as there may not be a horse alive capable of getting a peak-form Constitution Hill off the bridle. Nevertheless, State Man never really threatened to make a race of it, and that is where the disappointment lies.
