IT’S a script waiting to be written... the trainer who provided Sir Anthony Peter McCoy with his 31st and final Cheltenham Festival winner aiming to produce more of the same for the great man’s replacement as number one jockey for J.P. McManus aboard an unbeaten hurdler at jump-racing’s fast-approaching ‘Olympics.’

Twelve months on since Uxizandre, as though mindful of the importance of the occasion, gained a pillar-to-post win under an enterprising McCoy to lift the Ryanair Chase, Alan King returns to Cheltenham with a McManus-owned star, whose unblemished record this season entitles him to start the shortest-priced English runner of the entire four-days.