Talk about Mystical POWER!
Aintree winner Mystical Power came home strongly to run down Slade Steel in the KPMG Champion Novice Hurdle and bag his second top-flight win on day one of the Punchestown Festival.
Henry de Bromhead's Slade Steel had proved too strong for the Willie Mullins-trained Mystical Power in the latter stages of the Supreme Novices' Hurdle in mid-March, since when the latter had gone one better in Grade One company at Aintree.
There was little to choose between the pair in the betting for the rematch on home soil, but Mystical Power was the narrow favourite at 2-1 and ultimately took his revenge.
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