Un De Sceaux is set to return to Auteuil on Saturday instead of lining up in the Racing Post Champion Hurdle at next week’s Punchestown Festival.

You’d love to have been sitting behind the Ballydoyle contingent on the plane back from Dubai last weekend.

Willie Mullins is keeping his fingers crossed Barry Geraghty strikes up a good relationship with Un De Sceaux as the free-going gelding puts his unbeaten record on the line at Auteuil this afternoon.

Cheltenham is a fair old way to travel for just one ride, but that’s the plan today.