Lossiemouth put the seal on one other glorious season by profitable the Champion Hurdle at Punchestown on Friday.
The Willie Mullins-trained mare, a 2-7 favorite, was a cushty winner of the two-mile Grade One race, kicking clear approaching the final and in the end having 5 lengths to spare over Golden Ace (11-1) on the ending submit.
Ridden by Paul Townend, Lossiemouth has now gained 4 races from 4 begins on the County Kildare course and has notched up 11 Grade One victories.
The gray had secured a fourth Cheltenham Competition success within the Champion Hurdle at Prestbury Park final month.
Townend, in the meantime, has been having fun with a purple patch, using Gaelic Warrior to success within the Cheltenham Gold Cup in March after which I Am Maximus to a Grand Nationwide triumph in April.
“An excellent season,” mirrored profitable jockey Townend, talking to RTE on the finish of the race.
“I am in the best camp to be on these excellent horses – I am very lucky,” he added.
For Mullins it was a fourth consecutive success within the Punchestown Champion Hurdle, approaching the again of a hat-trick for State Man.
Wilful (16/1) completed third.
Earlier, the Mullins-Townend trainer-jockey mixture had yielded dividends once more as 8-13 favorite King Rasko Gray gained the Champion Novice Hurdle by a head from Lord Byren (7-1).
The profitable horse held off a late problem from the second-place finisher, with Kiely’s Place (10-1) third.
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