A SEASON that has already featured three Grade 1 successes could be about to get even better for Joseph O’Brien as he readies an impressive team for next month’s Cheltenham Festival.

The top two-mile novice chaser Le Richebourg and the unbeaten Grade 1 winner Sir Erec both hold every chance of giving O’Brien a victory on the greatest stage of all and he will have a number of other strong candidates to rely over the course of the four days at Prestbury Park.