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Fri 04 Apr 2007Refinement is king of the CastlePunchestown Report:There are only two British-trained runners at Punchestown today and the home team will be giving thanks for that after a cross-channel clean-sweep of yesterday's three Grade One features, including an unlikely success for Refinement in the €200,000 Dunboyne Castle Champion Stayers Hurdle.The Jonjo O'Neill-trained mare, a Punchestown Grade One winner in 2005, carried Tony MCoy to a two-and-a-half-length defeat of Powerstation after taking advantage of a bad injury to the hot favourite Mighty Man before the second last.