WILLIE Mullins accounts for the three Irish-trained contenders in the Caspian Caviar Gold Cup at Cheltenham on December 16th.

The champion trainer has Saturday's Ladbrokes Trophy favourite Total Recall pencilled in alongside Acapella Bourgeois and Childrens List.

The first four home from the BetVictor Gold Cup - Splash Of Ginge, Starchitect, Le Prezien and Ballyalton - are all in the mix.

Exotic Dancer was the last horse to complete the BetVictor Gold Cup-Caspian Caviar Gold Cup double in the same season back in 2006, following on from Pegwell Bay (1988) and Senor El Betrutti (1997).

Evan Williams has two contenders in On Tour and King's Odyssey.

On Tour made a successful reappearance in a valuable event at Aintree earlier this month, while King's Odyssey was third in a graduation chase at Carlisle.

Williams said: "It all depends on the ground with King's Odyssey and he could go for the Caspian Caviar Gold Cup, provided there is plenty of cut.

"It was a positive comeback at Carlisle. He has always promised to win a nice race, and we think perhaps he is one of those horses that we should have won a nice race with already.

"On Tour is a funny old horse because he is another who has promised to win a nice race and thankfully we were able to win a good pot at Aintree.

"It might be that we have won our pot now, but he deserves to be in the all big two-and-a-half-mile handicaps like the Caspian Caviar Gold Cup because there is such good prize money on offer and he has shown that he can run well in those types of races."

Paul Nicholls has won the Caspian Caviar Gold Cup a record four times and his four-strong team includes the aforementioned Le Prezien and last Saturday's impressive Haydock scorer Clan Des Obeaux.

Nicky Henderson has five entries to choose from, more than any other handler, including Gold Present, with Malcolm Jefferson's exciting Waiting Patiently also among the 36 possibles.