Dual Cheltenham Festival Champion Hurdle winner and eight-time Grade One victor Buveur D’Air has been retired. The 11-year-old, trained by Nicky Henderson and owned by JP McManus, amassed £1.23m in prize money during his career, winning 17 of his 27 races
The fifth and final day of the Punchestown Festival takes place on Saturday afternoon with an excellent eight-race card. The action gets underway at 2.35pm and .
Nicky Henderson reports Epatante in “fantastic form” ahead of her bid for a seventh Grade One victory in the Coolmore Kew Gardens Irish EBF Mares Champion Hurdle at Punchestown on Saturday.
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