ACHILL native Michael Masterson is in the remarkable position of having two ‘bankers’ for the Cheltenham Festival – Appreciate It in the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle and Kilcruit in the Champion Bumper.

Appreciate It has won two Grade 1 novice hurdles in great style, defeating another Grade 1 winner in Ballyadam on both occasions. He wasn’t even at his best last time out at the Dublin Racing Festival but as Willie Mullins commented afterwards “when Ballyadam came to him he got the job done which is the sign of a good horse”, and he is already proven around Cheltenham.