Nicky took the saddle and said, 'You know what you've got to do'

It is one of the most indelible images from any Cheltenham Festival during the 1990s: left to right, Travado, Deep Sensation and Viking Flagship, jumping the final fence in unison as the 1994 Queen Mother Champion Chase comes to the boil.

Rewind the tape barely 40 seconds and what history recalls as a tremendous three-way battle is brewing up to be a very different race, with Remittance Man and his jockey – captioned by the BBC as Michael Fitzgerald – making a line of four as the field bears down on the third from home.

In his first season as stable jockey with Nicky Henderson the 23-year-old Fitzgerald is aboard Remittance Man only on account of the suspension of his predecessor in the role, Richard Dunwoody.