Appreciate It to face just seven rivals in Supreme Novices’ Hurdle

Appreciate It is unbeaten in three starts over hurdles this season, including back-to-back Grade One wins at Leopardstown. Picture: Healy Racing.

Appreciate It will face just seven rivals in his bid to get favourite-backers off to the perfect start at this year’s Cheltenham Festival with victory in the Sky Bet Supreme Novices’ Hurdle.

Runner-up to his stablemate Ferny Hollow in the Champion Bumper 12 months ago, the seven-year-old is all the rage to go one better on his return to the Cotswolds and provide trainer Willie Mullins with a seventh success in the traditional curtain-raiser.