THE Sundowners Partnership were among the most ecstatic winning owners at the Cheltenham Festival following the success of Wodhooh in the Grade 1 Close Brothers’ Mares’ Hurdle, albeit in a quiet, understated way which was underpinned by an awe verging on disbelief about what had just happened to them.

The reaction of the nine members of the partnership, which is headed by the Limerick man, Ian Murphy, and consists of his sister, Janet Costello, along with Shane Grant, Paul Leonard, Paul Palmer, Gary Owens, Cian Foley, Kieran McManus and Brian O’Leary, mirrored that of the man who had found the six-year-old Le Havre mare for them, Ted Durcan.