CRITICS have remarked that the long-distance hurdles’ championship will not take much winning this season. That may be true but Paisley Park certainly did his chances no harm with an ultimately easy victory in the Grade 2 galliardhomes.com Cleeve Hurdle.

A much-improved seven-year-old, Paisley Park won the Long Walk Hurdle at Ascot, a first Grade 1 success for Emma Lavelle and Aiden Coleman, and won for the fourth time in a row here, again coming between horses in the closing stages
but going well clear this time to beat West Approach by a
12 lengths, with Black Op third.