Hill's confirmed for Punchestown

CONSTITUTION HILL will be in action at Punchestown next Friday after impressing in a Lambourn workout that went, in the words of his trainer Nicky Henderson, "exactly as I'd wanted".

- BY DAVID YATES

Falls in the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham and the Aintree Hurdle this spring raised the possibility of a seasonal sign-off in the Boodles Champion Hurdle on the penultimate day of the Punchestown Festival, which begins on Tuesday.