"We'll go to the Champion Hurdle if you will allow us to run a gelding in the mares' race,” he quipped. “Did she win the Mares' Hurdle last year? No.
“There’s always a possibility she could run in the Champion, but it’s only a possibility. Her ideal trip is two and a half miles, and Cheltenham is the wrong way round for her. You’d be taking on a serious horse in Buveur D’Air, and she would be giving him a length at every hurdle – that makes up for the 7lb she’d be getting.
“The plan has always been the mares’ race and I don’t see why we’d change it.”
O’Leary might be talking down her Champion Hurdle prospects, but he was also keen to acknowledge this latest stunning feat.
After watching Apple’s Jade secure a tenth Grade 1, and achieve something not even the mighty Kauto Star managed by winning a Grade 1 over two, two and a half and three miles in the same season, he said: “She's a fantastic mare, and she’s getting better with age. That was awesome.”  
Rider Jack Kennedy, like Elliott winning the race for a first time, could barely contain his adoration for a horse that bossed the field from the front as they plundered a fifth top-level success together.
“Oh wow,” he gushed. “It doesn't matter what trip, she's just unreal. She’s the best hurdler I’ve sat on and she makes good horses look ordinary.”
Unsurprisingly, Elliott inferred that Michael O'Leary will make the final call as to which race Apple's Jade will tackle at Cheltenham.
As of now, O'Leary's updated view was the only one not on the record, and his campaigning of Apple’s Jade has in general been sporting and ambitious.
Remember, though, he once stated that Apple's Jade would get a nose bleed in a Champion Hurdle. If her performance in the Irish version is anything to go by, she is at least entitled to a chance to defy that theory.



So what do we reckon then??

Of course she should be in the CH after yesterday.
Great news for the race.
BD the current champ against two mares,one of which we now is very good the other could be very good.
Exciting stuff.