Mullins said afterwards:- “He's always shown me he's good. From the first day he came into the yard he was one that I marked down as ‘he could be anything'. He's doing everything right.
“The race fell apart and I don't know what happened Gallic Warrior. I didn't get a chance to talk to Paul yet.
“He's so laidback in the stable and so laidback in a race. He does everything Mark asks him to do and you could run him over two and a half miles or a Gold Cup trip.
“I'll have a word with JP and Frank and see what they want to do.”
Walsh told RTE afterwards:- “I always knew Paul was going to pop out and make it and go wide because he does jump right.
“My lad was jumping right today as well, he was following Paul the whole way, which didn't help but I got a great spin off him and he jumped brilliant.
“Once we jumped the two fences away from the stands he actually got in my hands a bit and wanted to start racing early but I got him back off Paul and he was brilliant.
“Going to the fourth last I moved up to Paul with a good jump, kept him on the inside and he went by him easy.
“The plan was to put the pressure on three out but I did it a fence early, it still worked.
“He put it to bed fairly quick, he's a fair horse.”
Betfair made the winner 11/4 favourite (from 10/1) for the Turners Novices' Chase at Cheltenham.
