TALK about strength in numbers. You might think that Willie Mullins and Gordon Elliott are represented at the Cheltenham Festival with a bigger team of horses than anyone else, but that’s not how the National Hunt team at Goffs see it.

With a total of 132 runners at last year’s four-day bonanza who were previously sold at Goffs or Goffs UK - making up a third of all horses competing at the meeting - they had quite the squad to support across the 28 contests.