GOLD Cup winners Al Boum Photo and A Plus Tard will represent Treo Eile and the Irish throughbred retraining community on the opening day of the Cheltenham Festival.

The two stars, along with their riders Louise Duffy and Emily-Kate Robinson, will parade before the first race as part of the Racehorse to Riding Horse exhibition.

Both horses are excelling in their second careers: A Plus Tard is the current Dublin Horse Show Racehorse to Riding Horse Champion and Al Boum Photo placed second in the Irish EBF Thoroughbred Challenge at Ballindenisk International last year.