He's the new favourite for the Sky Bet Supreme, check out Timeform's verdict on Kopek Des Bordes' Dublin Racing Festival success.
Yet more evidence of the Mullins domination at this meeting and in general as, just 24 hours after Final Demand had posted a novice hurdle performance that ought to have been insurmountable, Kopek des Bordes created an even bigger impression as he obliterated a good-quality bunch in even more dominant fashion, with a group of 2-milers broken apart by the straight and returning all the more strung out.
KOPEK DES BORDES (FR) cut the same figure so many Mullins-trained Supreme winners have down the years in dominating the race almost always used as the pre-Festival stepping stone, turning what had looked an open division into something potentially much less so with a striking display at odds with his cumbersome winning start over hurdles, towering above most in terms of physique and all in terms of performance; never far away, he jumped much better and was still moving very powerfully as he led soon after 3 out before opening right up in the straight, looking cut from an entirely different cloth to the usual novice.
