IT'S MOUTH ALMIGHTY

LOSSIEMOUTH is as short as 6-4 favourite (from 5-2) for the Champion Hurdle next March after posting an impressive victory in the Grade 1 Hatton's Grace Hurdle at Fairyhouse.

- DAVID YATES

A stone bruise had prevented Willie Mullins' mare from making her comeback in Punchestown's Morgiana Hurdle eight days earlier.

But the Rich and Susannah Ricci-owned five-year-old showed no ill-effects from that setback, overcoming a mistake at the fourth-list flight to humble Teahupoo, bidding for a hat-trick in the two-and-a-half-mile test, by three and three-quarter lengths.