Get in behind formidable Footpad with all guns blazing

There is surely no way Ireland can replicate what was achieved at Cheltenham a year ago.

It’s not beyond the bounds of possibility, of course, considering we may well have the favourite in as many as 19 of the 28 races.

But last year literally everything went right and it is just stretching credulity to think we can blow the Brits away again to the same extent.