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PAISLEY PARK will skip Aintree in favour of a first trip to Ireland for the Grade One Champion Stayers Hurdle at next month’s Punchestown Festival.

The Emma Lavelle-trained 10year-old ran a fine race in the Stayers’ Hurdle at Cheltenham on

Thursday, finishing third to Flooring Porter and Thyme Hill in a bid to regain the crown he claimed in 2019, being beaten a nose for second. Lavelle said: ‘Paisley is absolutely perfect, I just wish he’d had a longer nose... We would like to go to Punchestown with him.’