Annie set to confirm her superiority

- Annie Power can supplement her emotional and brilliant Cheltenham Festival victory with another major success in the Doom Bar Aintree Hurdle today.

Having only entered the Champion Hurdle reckoning after last year's winner and stable companion Faugheen suffered injury, the eight-year-old played the role of super-sub perfectly, dominating her rivals from the front and leaving the usually unflappable Ruby Walsh fighting back the tears.

She faces a number of the same rivals on her first visit to Merseyside, but is fancied to confirm her superiority.

While it has only been a shade over three weeks since her tremendous display at Prestbury

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Park, she comes here fresher than most, having only had one previous run this season and that was no more than an exercise gallop against a couple of vastly inferior rivals at Punchestown.

My Tent Or Yours ran a fantastic race to finish second in the Champion Hurdle on his first start in almost two years and should also be fresh, but whether he will be as effective over this extra 800m is questionable, whereas Annie Power will relish the distance.

Champion Hurdle third and fourth Nichols Canyon and The New One respectively have both had tough enough seasons and it is hard to see them reversing Cheltenham form with Willie Mullins' brilliant mare.