RACE REPORT

Meeting: Punchestown

Date: 29/04/03

Going: good to yielding

Winnings: £34,415

Race: Evening Herald Champion Novice Hurdle, Grade 1

Distance: 2m

1st

 Back In Front

 4/11f

11.12

2nd

 Limerick Boy

 7/1

11.11 

3rd

Fota Island

 8/1

11.12

Distances: 2½, 7

Time: 3m 48.40s (slow 1.4s)

Ran: 9

Trainer: E J O' Grady

Jockey: N Williamson

Owner: D Cox

 Back In Front duly followed up his win in the Supreme Novices Hurdle with a comfortable long-odds success here. While not as extravagantly impressive as at Cheltenham, this was still a thoroughly professional performance by this six-year-old, who was always handily placed and quickened up to assert control without undue effort on the run to the last.

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