Punchestown Festival: Confirmed Runners and Riders for Three Grade 1 Races on First Day

The Henry de Bromhead-trained Slade Steel has been kept at two miles following his Cheltenham success. Gallagher Novices’ Hurdle winner Ballyburn has not been declared for the opening day Grade 1 and is set to run in the 2m3½f novice hurdle at the big meeting on Friday. Mystical Power, the son of Galileo and Annie Power, was beaten a length and a half by Slade Steel in the Supreme and most recently won the Top Novices’ Hurdle for Willie Mullins at Aintree. The Henry de Bromhead-trained nine-year-old beat Gentleman De Mee by a length and a half at Cheltenham and the runner-up takes him on again in this Grade 1 event.

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