Punters were convinced they had watched a Cheltenham Festival winner in waiting after Dysart Dynamo landed the Grade 2 Sky Bet Moscow Flyer Novice Hurdle at Punchestown on Sunday.
The six-year-old took his unbeaten record to four as he romped home by 19 lengths at the Co Kildare venue under Paul Townend for Willie Mullins.
Mullins has won the two-mile affair with some giants of the jumping game in the past, with Vautour, Douvan and Min landing the prize between 2014 and 2016, and the bookmakers feel Dysart Dynamo holds similar potential, chopping him in the markets for both the Supreme and Ballymore Novices’ Hurdles at the Cheltenham Festival.