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[b]It might have got off to a delayed start, but the Leopardstown December Festival was well worth the wait. Timeform look back over the highlights, with an eye to finding clues for the Cheltenham Festival in March...[/b] [b]Tuesday[/b] The meeting finally got underway on Tuesday, and started with a bang for the trainer and jockey combination of Willie Mullins and Paul Townend as ex-French Flat winner So Young made a successful debut over hurdles. Tuesday's first Grade 1 was the Fort Leney Novice Chase, a race won by the likes of Notre Pere and Pandorama in recent seasons, but it looked just an average renewal and went the way of the relatively unfancied Bostons Angel, who will now be hard to place under a penalty. The Christmas Hurdle came next, in which Willie Mullins' ...