Mullins has 100-1 Cheltenham winner with Poniros

Poniros stunned a capableness assemblage connected Cheltenham Gold Cup time with a 100-1 triumph successful the Triumph Hurdle for trainer Willie Mullins.

There were gasps arsenic his likelihood - the longest-priced victor successful the race's past - were announced pursuing a precocious complaint nether jockey Jonjo O'Neill junior.

Mullins is the ascendant trainer astatine Cheltenham but his victor was moving implicit hurdles for the archetypal clip and was considered an outsider among his 11 contenders successful the 18-runner opener.

Poniros, moving successful the bluish and achromatic colours of Brighton and Hove Albion proprietor Tony Bloom, won by a cervix from Lulamba with favourite East India Dock successful third.