State Man jumps the last on his way to winning the Morgiana Hurdle. Image: PA STATE MAN DID all that was asked of him as he reappeared with a straightforward victory in the Morgiana Hurdle at Punchestown.
It was stablemate Sharjah who eventually chased him home, beaten four lengths, although Patrick Mullins had been hard at work from some way out before eventually staying on to go by Saldier. But she answered every call in front for Danny Mullins, and while hard pushed by Minella Crooner refused to buckle and won the day by a head, in a race that was reduced in terms of a jumping test with the fences down the back taken out due to low sun.
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