Europe misses Champion clash Sublimity and Harchibald clash in the ACCBank Champion Hurdle at Punchestown on Friday - but Sizing Europe will not be there. Henry De Bromhead´s six-year-old virtually pulled up at Cheltenham and it was thought he would look to rebuild his reputation in this event but connections have decided against it. "He´s just not quite right, we thought we´d got it but it has come back and we probably tried to do a bit too much too soon with him," said De Bromhead. "We haven´t decided whether he will go chasing next season yet, that is up to Alan and Ann Potts. "It´s a killer of a decision but it can only be right, he´s a young horse with a bright future ahead of him." Instead, former champion hurdler Sublimity and Noel Meade´s mercurial Harchibald look set to look horns on their favoured good ground after both were undone by the rain at Cheltenham. Meade has also declared Aitmatov, due to run in the Ladbrokes.com World Series Hurdle on Thursday. Willie Mullins has declared 2007 Supreme Novices´ Hurdle winner Ebaziyan while Salford City, second to Jered earlier in the week, looks set to reappear quickly. Nicky Henderson´s Champion Hurdle third Punjabi and Tom Hogan´s Kalderon complete the field of seven. Sublimity is in flying form according to his trainer John Carr. "He´s just done his last canter this morning and everything is spot-on with him," said Carr. "The small field is grand and even though he is better going left-handed, it´s not that much of an issue. "We could just do with the rain that is forecast though. The ground as it was at the start of the week would be perfect for him but it is a bit quicker now. "He should take a fair bit of beating. Punjabi finished in front of us at Cheltenham but he was ridden for a place and if we had done that, we would have finished closer to the winner."
