THERE can hardly have been a card last season that produced more subsequent big race winners than Hatton’s Grace day; not only did six Cheltenham Festival winners run that day but there were also winners of the Galway Hurdle, the Manifesto Chase and the Punchestown Stayers Hurdle to mention a few.

Basic probability suggests that is unlikely to be the case this time around but perhaps a couple of Gordon Elliott-trained novice hurdlers are the most notable ones to take from the weekend.