LEOPARDSTOWN’S final jumps meeting of the winter last Sunday is likely to have little bearing on events at Cheltenham but could well have plenty of future relevance all the same.

Two winning performances stood out on the clock: namely, Great Field’s 153 timefigure in the 17-furlong novice chase and High Tide’s debut 118 timefigure in the concluding bumper.

That places the pair in joint sixth among novice chasers and joint third among bumper performers this season respectively, though that picture is likely to change considerably after next week.

Of course, Great Field managed that despite all but coming down soon after the last.

Great Field seems a somewhat risky conveyance (not just here), but there are probably very few novices around with a bigger engine than him.

Hidden Cyclone also put up a useful winning time effort in the opening Foxrock Cup Hurdle, though a 140 figure is somewhat short of the versatile veteran’s best.

The other notable jumps winner in a quiet week was Mount Mews in a Grade 2 Novice Hurdle at Kelso. It would be easy to dismiss a wide-margin win on heavy ground from just one other finisher as amounting to little but the pace was decent, and so was the time in that context: worth a figure of 144.

By Presenting, out of a sister to the high-class staying chaser Burton Port, it seems long odds-on that 18 furlongs will not prove the limit of Mount Mews’ stamina.