'He floated over the fences at home, there's no confidence issue' - can the Constitution Hill curse be cured at Punchestown?

He's here. Three years after Michael Buckley first tickled us with the idea of sending his sensational Supreme Novices' Hurdle winner over to take on the then unbeaten Honeysuckle, Constitution Hill has finally touched down in Ireland for the Boodles Champion Hurdle at Punchestown. Better late than never. 

One of the modern-day greats has some grovelling to do, and where better than Punchestown, the perfect place to prove that he actually can jump eight hurdles in a row without coming a cropper at one. He must show he still has the swagger that had us debating whether he would have beaten the mighty Istabraq in his heyday not so long ago. 

The fallen hero has serious jumping issues and Nicky Henderson's latest form of counselling has seen him school Constitution Hill over four fences. He came out of that session cured by the looks of the social media clip, measuring each of the obstacles beautifully and meeting them on the perfect stride. You'd wonder what all the kerfuffle was for.