SPEAKING about his team for this year’s meeting at his Manor House Farm Stables in Somerset at a media visit Nicholls said: “It’s a nice team and I think we’ll probably have 15-16 runners during the week. I’d say the last two years we were very quiet – I think two years ago I watched the Supreme in the pub! We’re getting a nice team of horses together and not just for Cheltenham but for the next few years, which is really nice. The betting says Hermes Allen is my best chance if you look at that, but who knows. It’s incredibly hard to win races there but I think Bravemansgame has got as good a chance as anything going there.”

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