Punchestown could be the biggest winner from this year's festival - here's why

Who were the biggest winners at this year's Cheltenham Festival? Was it Willie Mullins, who broke the record for the number of victories one trainer has sent out during the week by taking ten trophies back to Closutton? Or how about Henry de Bromhead, who recorded back-to-back Champion Hurdle successes with Honeysuckle and delivered A Plus Tard at concert pitch in the Gold Cup?

If De Bromhead is on that shortlist, so too should be superwoman Rachael Blackmore, who executed the most daring of plans in the Gold Cup.

Mullins, De Bromhead and Blackmore were the big winners at Cheltenham, no doubt about that, but there is a case to be made that Punchestown will end up being the biggest winner of all. Here's why.