BLOW By Blow crowned a great National Hunt season for the Hadden family and was yet another feather in the cap of Kevin Ross Bloodstock when the five-year-old son of Robin Des Champs won what will surely prove to be a vintage renewal of the Grade 1 Attheraces.com Champion I.N.H. Flat Race at Punchestown on Wednesday.

Bred by Eleanor Hadden, Blow By Blow joins the Grade 3 Crabbie’s Topham Chase winner Eastlake as another major National Hunt festival winner bred at Coolruss Stud, while Eleanor’s son Gary was one of the breeders of Minella Rocco who won the National Hunt Chase at Cheltenham back in March. Quite a treble of successes and sure to earn the Haddens a breeder’s trophy or two in the coming months.