Yesterday was all about the favourites, with Vautour, Thistlecrack and Limini all winning as expected. We’ll have to wait and see if today brings more upsets.

Veteran performer Any Currency stuck on gamely to strike for trainer Martin Keighley and jockey Aidan Coleman in the Glenfarclas Chase at Cheltenham.

"That was unbelievable. That was about dreams, wasn't it?"

Davy Russell delivered Gordon Elliott's charge after jumping the last flight and quickly asserted on the run to the line.

Produced by Ryan Hatch in a wide-open race, the Nigel Twiston-Davies-trained Blaklion (8-1) put in a tenacious effort to come out on top.

Mullins said: "Ruby gave him a super ride - he needed a bit of luck."

Carruthers, 22, photographed relieving himself on a balcony while surrounded by racegoers, said he had been discliplined by the club.

Willie Mullins is keeping his fingers crossed Limini's jumping stands up to the test as she puts her reputation on the line in Thursday's Trull House Stud Mares' Novices' Hurdle at Cheltenham.

Willie Mullins and Ruby Walsh will hope to keep the winning streak going, with Un De Sceaux highly fancied for the Queen Mother Champion Chase.

Only three mares in the history of the two-mile championship had won it, the last being Flakey Dove in 1994, and since the introduction of the mares' race, less and less will now surely try.

Cheltenham has cancelled the booking of a group of footballers after pictures said to show one of the players urinating into a beer glass on the first day of the Festival were published.

It was Mullins' eighth consecutive win in the Mares' Hurdle.

Annie Power made it third time lucky at the Cheltenham Festival as she romped home in the Stan James Champion Hurdle.

Un Temps Pour Tout put up a determined performance to land the Ultima Handicap Chase at Cheltenham.

Vaniteux tried to put it up to the Willie Mullins hotpot at the second-last but made a bad mistake, giving Nico de Boinville no chance of staying in the saddle.

Altior, trained by Nicky Henderson and ridden by Nico de Boinville, won the Sky Bet Supreme Novices' Hurdle, the opening event of the 2016 Cheltenham Festival.

Owner Rich Ricci has confirmed the seven-year-old will line up in the extended two-and-a-half-mile event after failing to really impress in his recent work.

Last year's Mares' Hurdle will never be forgotten after her dramatic exit at the final flight.

The dual Olympic cycling champion will partner Pacha Du Polder in the St James's Place Foxhunter Chase on Friday week.