Home in tenth, Tipple gives Kinirons a thirst for more to come 

The Kildare trainer has a yard of just 20 but came to Cheltenham dreaming big. A learning experience for all involved hasn't sated the appetite 

ON THE WAY: Puturhandstogether, with Mark Walsh up, jumps slightly ahead of Hot Fuss, with David Bass up, on the way to winning the Hallgarten And Novum Wines Juvenile Handicap Hurdle on day one of the Cheltenham Racing Festival at Prestbury Park in Cheltenham, England. Photo by Harry Murphy/Sportsfile

The Juvenile Handicap Hurdle was long done. So long done that the runners and riders for the next, the last race of the first day at Cheltenham, were already on their way down to the track. But Andrew Kinirons wasn’t done yet.

Kinirons had just watched Luker’s Tipple, his 25/1 shot lose ground before the last to finish tenth, and over as many lengths adrift of Joseph O’Brien Puturhandstogether, and the debrief stretched long and deep.