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State Man took his record in Grade 1 racing over hurdles to seven wins from eight starts with a comfortable success in the Matheson Hurdle at Leopardstown on Friday and will be keen to add another record in the Irish Champion Hurdle in February. But he remains a 4-1 chance to avenge the only top-level defeat of his career - a nine-length thrashing against the exceptional Constitution Hill - when he returns to the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham in March.
It is one of the many measures of Constitution Hill's freakish talent that he dispatched an ...
