THIS week’s column covers just the first two days of the Cheltenham Festival where, on day one, it was great to see the colours of the Try Ravenhill Syndicate carried to success on the Aaron Metcalfe-bred Ravenhill in the concluding Grade 2 National Hunt Chase.

Now trained by Gordon Elliott, the 2010 Winged Love gelding began his career at Danescroft with George Stewart, pulling up on his debut in a Punchestown maiden in mid-February 2015 and winning on his seventh and final start between the flags at Loughanmore in late March 2016.