THE racing was top-class at Leoparstown last weekend. Apple’s Jade was brilliant in the BHP Insurance Irish Champion Hurdle, and will now probably be rerouted from the Mares’ Hurdle to the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham as a result. Min could do no more than he did in winning the Ladbrokes Dublin Chase.

Le Richebourg consolidated his position as probably the best two-mile novice chaser in the country in winning the Frank Ward Solicitors Arkle, Sir Erec reclaimed his position as probably the best juvenile hurdler in the country in winning the Tattersalls Ireland Spring Juvenile Hurdle.