Odds-on favourite State Man has won the Champion Hurdle - the feature race on the opening day of the Cheltenham Festival.
The Paul Townend mount, trained by Willie Mullins, came home a length-and-a-quarter ahead of Irish Point, the mount of Kerry jockey Jack Kennedy, with 33-to-1 shot Luccia in third.
Kennedy was also runner up in the Arkle, aboard Found A Fifty. Mullins and Townend combined for victory in the Arkle, with favourite Gaelic Warrior a comfortable winner.
Willie Mullins' 97th Cheltenham Festival winner came in the Mares Hurdle, with odds-on favourite Lossiemouth winning under Paul Townend.
The jockey believes Lossiemouth is a Champion Hurdle winner-in-waiting
Rachael Blackmore was aboard the first winner of the festival - the Henry de Bromhead-trained Slade Steel in the Supreme Novices Hurdle.
The Ultima Handicap Chase went to 6-to-1 shot, Chianti Classico.
The 9/1 priced Lark In The Mornin took the Juvenile Handicap Hurdle.
And Corbetts Cross - trained by Emmet Mullins - won the race named in honour of his grandmother, the Maureen Mullins National Hunt Cup.
