WHISKY Sour beat Le Richebourg by 19 lengths when winning the Grade 1 Future Champions Novice Hurdle over two miles at Leopardstown’s Christmas festival in 2017.

He finished third in the Grade 3 County Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival a few months later, was fourth and second in Grade 1 novice hurdle races at the Punchestown Festival the following month, has since been fourth in another County Hurdle and, as of this year, is a Grade 3 runner-up who ran away with a recent hurdle race at Leopardstown.