GALOPIN ON

Punchestown next stop for Gold Cup winner as Noble Yeats heads to National 

- DAVID YATES

PUNCHESTOWN is next on the agenda for Galopin Des Champs after his brilliant Cheltenham Gold Cup victory.

The 7-5 favourite gave Willie Mullins (below) and Paul Townend a third success in chasing's blue riband with a seven-length supremacy over the Paul Nicholls saddled Bravemansgame.

Ireland's champion trainer reported the seven-year-old to be none the worse for his exertions and will now prepare Galopin Des Champs for the Ladbrokes Gold Cup on April 26.

"Punchestown is normally where we go," said Mullins, who stayed in Cheltenham before flying to Dublin to see Ireland hammer England in the Six Nations rugby.