Barren run is over as Ivanovich Gorbatov ends a three-year drought in feature

The last time Ivanovich Gorbatov won a race Leicester were on the way to winning the Premier League and the now retired Don Cossack won the Cheltenham Gold Cup a few hours later.

Thirty-seven months and 24 starts later the 2016 Triumph Hurdle winner finally got his head in front again as he recaptured some of the old sparkle which saw him oust Apple's Jade, Footpad, Clan Des Obeaux, Frodon and Sceaux Royal at Cheltenham over three years ago to take the valuable Rybo Handicap Hurdle, worth €100,000 in prize-money.

Form figures of 2333433600700P008200003 show you just how disappointing Ivanovich Gorbatov has been since that Triumph win, but JJ Slevin showed why Joseph O'Brien has so much faith in him by producing the 11-1 shot to lead up the inside in between the final two flights and he stuck at it to repel Tudor City by two and a half lengths. The drought had finally ended.