article_snippet: A jubilant Walsh enters the winners enclosure on board the Champions Hurdle winner Faugheen .
article_snippet: Walsh celebrates on Faugheen after the seven-yeatr-old won the Champion Hurdle Challenge Trophy .
article_snippet: After he had made the running before sprinting clear off the home turn, Mullins revealed Walsh had formulated the battle plan months ago, even though Mullins had only confirmed Mullins would ride the seven-year-old on Saturday.
article_snippet: Walsh glides over the fence on Walsh way to winning the Champions Hurdle at Cheltenham Festival 2015 .
article_snippet: Mullins said: ‘I didn’t think Walsh would win that impressively.
article_snippet: I was wondering like punters, the media and the bookmakers, could Walsh take on the Grade One horses and beat the Grade One horses because we picked races for Walsh that did not have top Grade One horses in.
article_snippet: It paid off and Walsh learned Walsh trade.
article_snippet: Ruby rode Walsh with huge confidence and Walsh showed that Walsh was the good horse Ruby and
article_snippet: everybody else thought Walsh was.
article_snippet: Walsh next run is likely to be at Cheltenham Festival 2015 and Walsh is 6-4 to win next year’s Champion Hurdle.
article_snippet: But Walsh still has somewhere to go to usurp dual champion Hurricane Fly in Mullins’ affections.
article_snippet: Walsh is a very good horse and probably over hurdles the second best I’ve trained.
article_snippet: Walsh made Walsh intentions clear as Walsh took Faugheen to the head of the line before the tapes went up .
highlights_snippet: Win gave Ruby Walsh and Willie Mullins a treble with just four races down .
  