GORDON Elliott heads into the Festival as the season’s leading trainer in terms of prize money, but says he has “no chance” of retaining that lead in the face of an expected avalanche of Willie Mullins-trained winners next week.

The Cullentra yard is still set to fire some quality bullets at the meeting, including back-to-back Cheltenham Festival heroine Wodhooh in the Grade 1 SBK Irish EBF Mares’ Champion Hurdle on Saturday.