No coincidence if Fact To File hits cruising altitude to land Ryanair Chase 

Darren Norris previews Day Three of the Cheltenham Festival 

LAST YEAR'S EFFORT: Fact To File, with Mark Walsh up, jump the last ahead of Monty's Star, with Rachael Blackmore up, who finished second, on their way to winning the Brown Advisory Novices' Chase on day two of the Cheltenham Racing Festival at Prestbury Park in 2024. Pic by David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

When Fact To File won the Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase at last year’s Cheltenham Festival hopes were high that he would return to Prestbury Park in 2025 as the main threat to Galopin Des Champs in the Gold Cup.

Those hopes were enhanced when Fact To File beat his illustrious stablemate into third over a trip just shy of two and a half miles in the John Durkan at Punchestown on his first start outside novice company last November.