BACK in March Fact To File added the Grade 1 Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase to his bloodless Dublin Racing Festival Grade 1 win, and contributed to his owner’s Cheltenham haul. J.P. McManus’ achievements as a National Hunt owner will never be bettered.

A graduate of the Irish point-to-point scene where he won his only start for handler Donnchadh Doyle and with Rob James in the saddle at Belharbour, Fact To File next appeared in the familiar McManus colours and from Willie Mullins’ yard. He won a Leopardstown Christmas bumper in the style of an odds-on favourite, but he then ran into A Dream To Share twice, finishing runner-up to that gelding in a Grade 2 bumper at the Dublin Racing Festival, and again at Cheltenham.