'He's working well - it was always the plan to go straight to the Gold Cup'
Mark Boylan gets the latest on the history-making trainer's Cheltenham squad
After achieving things at last year's meeting that no trainer had done before, the bar has been set ridiculously high for Henry de Bromhead as he goes in pursuit of further Cheltenham Festival riches next month.
On a week when it felt as though nearly everything went right for the masterful trainer, the highlight of a sensational six festival winners last year was clearly his unprecedented Champion Hurdle, Champion Chase and Gold Cup hat-trick.
Having also plundered the Ballymore Novices' Hurdle, Triumph Hurdle and Mares' Novices' Hurdle, it would surely be unrealistic to expect such a phenomenal return to the meeting this time around.
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Copy- 'He's bigger, stronger, definitely getting better - and he'll be a classy horse going back into handicaps'
- 'Our novice chasers are as good as anyone's in Britain - and this one is a proper horse'
- 'Having a winner at the Cheltenham Festival last season made a big difference - and this might be one for the same race'
- 'We're working back from the Gold Cup - he's a massive horse and lightly raced, so we hope there's more improvement to come'
- 'We're excited about him - we hope he's a Graded horse and we're working back from the Cheltenham Festival'
- 'He's bigger, stronger, definitely getting better - and he'll be a classy horse going back into handicaps'
- 'Our novice chasers are as good as anyone's in Britain - and this one is a proper horse'
- 'Having a winner at the Cheltenham Festival last season made a big difference - and this might be one for the same race'
- 'We're working back from the Gold Cup - he's a massive horse and lightly raced, so we hope there's more improvement to come'
- 'We're excited about him - we hope he's a Graded horse and we're working back from the Cheltenham Festival'