THE 2024 Galway Hurdle will be remembered more for what happened on the morning of the race and at the start, but Nurburgring was still a dominant winner and might well have come out on top had Petrol Head been in the line-up, and many of the field got a fair chance at the flag.

His winning margin of seven lengths was the biggest since Quinze won by an amazing 14 back in 1999, only Overturn and Bahrain Storm coming close to Nurburgring in the intervening years, and in fairness his hurdling career has been all progress with the exception of the Triumph Hurdle run, perhaps forgivable due to the testing ground and his coming off an absence.