 That year's Champion Hurdle was won with a Racing Post Rating four below Moscow Flyer's highest rating of 170 achieved the previous April at Punchestown.Moscow Flyer returned to the Festival for the 2003 Queen Mother Champion Chase having won four races out of five that season.In his only defeat, reigning champion Flagship Uberalles made a very bad mistake at one fence in the Tingle Creek Chase at Sandown.