FINALLY first three days of the Cheltenham Festival, British trainer Colin Tizzard recorded a quick-fire Grade 1 double on the Friday with two Irish pointing graduates.

Richard Johnson brought up the brace in the Timico Gold Cup on Native River who ran once in an Irish point-to-point, unseating Pa King at the last in a four-year-old Dromahane maiden in March 2014 when trained by Denis Ahern.