FINDING the sweet spot between having something to look forward to and not wishing your days away is where I sit with the Cheltenham Festival just now; it is brilliant to build to those four days but there are plenty of good races between now and then, and I don’t intend this column to become utterly Cheltenham-centric.

Still, it is hard to escape the divisive effort of Salvator Mundi in the Grade 2 Moscow Flyer Hurdle with a view to the Supreme.