TAKEAWAYS from the Racing Writers’ visit to Willie Mullins’ yard on Wednesday morning? There were many.

He has some team of horses for starters. From Kemboy and Al Boum Photo, to Chacun Pour Soi and Cilaos Emery and Douvan and Min, to Klassical Dream and Saldier and Sharjah, to Bacardys and Penhill and Benie Des Dieux, and that’s without getting into the novices or the handicappers or the bumper horses.

No trainer has ever won all four championship races at the Cheltenham Festival in the same year, right?

And specifically? Melon could improve for going out in trip and Bapaume could improve for dropping back in trip. Cabaret Queen is a real live Ladbrokes Trophy prospect, and Douvan is back and Pont Aven (is a friendly and playful soul and) will be interesting dropped back down to three miles, and Real Steel could be good enough to take his chance in the King George, and Al Boum Photo could go the same (Tramore) Savills Chase route that he took last year. Why change a winning formula?

And Fly Smart. Fly Smart finished second in an AQPS three-year-olds’ hurdle at Auteuil last October. In third place that day was Fou Delice, who has won twice since, once over hurdles and once, two weeks ago, over fences. In fourth was Forland and in fifth was Filup, both of whom have won over fences since.

(Yes, they all begin with F – must be a 2015 AQPS thing.)

In sixth was Flip De Vega, who won a listed hurdle at Auteuil last month. And in eighth place that day was Figuero, who won over hurdles last November, and who has won four of his five chases to date, including a seriously impressive performance in winning the Prix Maurice Gillois, a Grade 1 chase for four-year-olds, two weeks ago at Auteuil.

So of the seven horses who finished the race and finished behind Fly Smart in his only race to date, six of them have run and five of them have won. And more importantly, Willie Mullins seems to like him.