IRISH-TRAINED winners have been rare at Festival Trials Day at Cheltenham in the last 20 years, indeed there were none in that period prior to 2017 when Un De Sceaux won a rescheduled Clarence House.

That win was followed by three wins in the Finesse Hurdle between 2019 and 2023 via Fakir D’Oudairies, Pied Piper and Comfort Zone, but few have tried, with a couple or three Irish runners on the card being the norm for the noughties.