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Tom Scudamore's mount made all the running to land the Grade One heat at odds of 14-1.

Two-time Champion Hurdle winner Hardy Eustace stayed on for second, while Black Jack Ketchum finished third.

Scudamore told BBC Sport: "He did it quite easily in the end. He seems to love it at Ascot and was only beaten a length and a quarter in this race last year.

"He has always been a good horse and it is all credit to the team at home, they have done a great job. The further he went, the better he went and on his day he is very good. I wasn't going to win a sprint, I wanted it to be a proper three-mile test. Lough Derg is very good but he wouldn't win two Champion Hurdles."

Pipe added: "He does absolutely nothing at home and leaves everything for the track. If they want to give us a lead like that we'll take it. I suppose he'll have to go to the World Hurdle now."

Dessie Hughes, trainer of runner-up Hardy Eustace, was happy enough in defeat and said: "I think he got the trip. He made a lot of ground up after the third-last."

Conversely, Black Jack Ketchum's connections felt their charge ran out of puff in the three-mile-one-furlong hike.

"I'd say he doesn't get it. He ran a blinder but he might not be the horse he used to be," reasoned trainer Jonjo O'Neill