1 Laurina (P Townend) 4-7 Fav

2 Cap Soleil (P J Brennan) 10-1

3 Champayne Lady (D F O'Regan) 80-1

14 ran

Frank Keogh
BBC Sport at Cheltenham

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It's all Ireland.

Laurina brings a sixth winner of the day as an unprecedented 'Green Sweep' moves closer.

It also puts Willie Mullins ahead of Nicky Henderson on 61 victories as the Festival's all-time leading trainer.

Laurina has just raised the bar with that easy peasy win. Effortless. Arguably the finest win of the week so far, it takes Mullins's Festival tally to seven this week and a record-extending 61 of all-time.

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Laurina tears it up. She looks Premier League, the rest look League Two. A completely different league.

Another winner for Willie Mullins, another winner for Ireland.

Three Becomes Two. Laurina joins Maria's Benefit and Cut The Mustard with two to go, then steps on the accelerator to race eight or nine lengths clear....

Spice Girl is in third... leading the pack, way behind the Maria's Benefit and Cut the Mustard who have cut loose. No sign of Laurina yet.

I tell you what I want. What I really really want.

I want Spice Girl to win.

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The field trots forward slowly... and then they're OFF! The penultimate race of the day is under way.

Rob Nothman
BBC Radio 5 live at Cheltenham Festival

Maria’s Benefit is now 9-2 second favourite with a lot of people supporting her but Laurina is 7-4 clear favourite.

Behind Laurina in the market is Maria's Benefit. The Stuart Edmunds-trained mare has been a revelation this season, a dominant performance at Doncaster among her highlights.

Is she the one to stop Laurina? Connections are quietly confident.

John Inverdale
BBC Radio 5 live presenter

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This is a newly-established race and provides opportunity for other trainers. But this whole meeting is bloated in the eyes of some people and they are disappointed this race has come about. Do we really need a race like this? For me the obvious thing to do is take one race out from each day rather than go back to three days.

Another Willie Mullins victory would make it six out of six for the Irish today on St Patrick's Thursday.

Irish eyes are smiling, luck of the Irish, etc, etc.

The Green Sweep is on.

And Willie Mullins is the hot favourite to add another victory to his tally in the 4:50 Stud Mares' Novices' Hurdle.

Mullins has yet to taste defeat in a race that was introduced in 2016 and his mare Laurina is the odds-on favourite today.

That's three wins for the Gordon Elliott/Davy Russell combo today, propelling Russell to the top of the Festival's leading jockeys, with Elliott slugging out with Willie Mullins for the top trainer.

The Storyteller's winning jockey Davy Russell, speaking to ITV Sport, on trainer Gordon Elliott: "I don't know too many trainers would have ran this horse in the handicap.

"Fortune favours the brave. He is the bravest man I have rode for. We soldier together. He gives me so much confidence. He's a great man, a brilliant man. He gave me no instructions - just enjoy yourself.

"I'm over the moon to repay him with the success here."

Frank Keogh
BBC Sport at Cheltenham

They've come close, but it's never happened before...Irish-trained horses winning all the races on one day at the Cheltenham Festival.

Five down. Two to go. The 'Green Sweep' is on.

Charlie Poste
National Hunt jockey on BBC Radio 5 live

An absolute masterclass from Davy Russell and anyone who wants to be a jockey should go back and watch this race!

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1 The Storyteller (D N Russell) 5-1 Fav

2 Splash of Ginge (Jamie Bargary) 25-1

3 King's Odyssey (Adam Wedge) 14-1

4 Ballyalton (T J O'Brien) 16-1

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Another Irish winner on St Patrick's Thursday. And it's another winner for... guess who? Yep, Gordon Elliott.

That's Elliott 6-6 Mullins in the fight for leading trainer at the Festival.

Two to go... here comes King's Socks... but Splash of Ginge still leads.

Here comes The Storyteller too... can Splash of Ginge hang on? Splash of Ginge sticks close to the rail while The Storyteller veers off to the right...

It's a sprint finish....