Colm Greaves: What we will learn today at Cheltenham

Advocates for an extension to five days are on manoeuvre again this year and with a newly refreshed vigour, too. They point to the healthy advance sales of tickets this year, much of it probably resulting from pent-up demand hanging over from last year's empty grandstands.

Is this what it is all about?

If Nube Negro, Envoi Allen, Put the Kettle On, and Politologue all showed up for a two-mile chase at any other meeting at any other time for of the season it would be enough cause enough to stop, watch and savour. And why not? Included would be the two most recent winners of the Champion Chase, last year’s runner up and all are them multiple winners in graded company.