Doom Bar Aintree Hurdle (Grade 1)

IN front of a record opening day crowd, Annie Power ran away with the Grade 1 Doom Bar Aintree Hurdle at Aintree on Thursday. In thrashing My Tent Or Yours by 18 lengths, she took Willie Mullins even closer to Paul Nicholls’ prize money tally for the season and the Co Carlow man ended the day as odds-on favourite to become champion trainer in Britain for the first time.