EVERYONE loves a comeback. However, as revitalised trainer Kim Bailey prepares his strongest team in a couple of decades for the Cheltenham Festival and beyond, don’t expect to reflect too much on unhappy times in the recent past.

“I’m very much a forward thinker and I don’t recall dark days - I never remember them,” claims Bailey, who is enjoying his best season since his 1990s heyday when he was seemingly a permanent fixture on jump racing’s biggest stages.