Galopin has got to be on your radar while My Drogo looks set for a huge season

For many the search for this season’s novice chase winners at the Cheltenham Festival will start and end with last season’s winners of the Supreme, Ballymore and Albert Bartlett.

Recent history suggests that’s not the worst strategy as in the last decade no fewer than eight Cheltenham Festival novice hurdle winners went on to land a festival novice chase 12 months later, but that wasn’t always the case.

Indeed, when 2015 Supreme winner Douvan followed up in the 2016 Arkle he became the first to do so since the latter contest was named after jump racing’s greatest horse in 1969. Before Douvan, Arkle’s stablemate Flyingbolt can be considered to have completed the same double in differently named races in 1964-65.