RUBY WALSH: Klassical can give me dream start in opener

At the 11th hour we switched Klassical Dream back to the Supreme and he’ll be my first ride of the 2019 Cheltenham Festival. We had contemplated going up in trip with him after his win at the Dublin Racing Festival in Leopardstown but with the ground slowing and looking at the opposition – Felix Desjy will more than likely make it a strongly-run race – we thought this would be the right race for him.

When we compared him to the other horses we won this race with, it was hard to compare him ability-wise but when Vautour and Champagne Fever won that race he won at the Dublin Racing Festival it was run over two miles and two furlongs and it’s now a two-mile race on the inside track at Leopardstown.