Colm Greaves: Three things we’ll learn at Cheltenham today

Colm Greaves looks at the Cheltenham Triumph Hurdle, Noel Meade’s prospects and novice chasers.

The art of placing a horse

Happily AP got off the mark in the Ryanair yesterday, but imagine that he hadn’t and headed in to the last Festival race of his career without a winner in the week? The tension would have been made even more unbearable as the Grand Annual Chase has been renamed in his honour this year. Step forward then, Noel Meade and the seven-year-old gelding, Ned Buntline.