This year’s Betway Queen Mother Champion Chase is shaping up to being the race of the Festival – but behind the apparent big guns is a little horse owned by a syndicate who just might shake up the established order.

Dan Skelton isn’t a trainer who wastes entries, but even for such an efficient operation his record with his runners in the Greatwood Hurdle is very impressive.

Nicky Henderson took the training plaudits at Newbury as Beyond Conceit tasted success on his first start for 1,267 days in the Betfred 'Goals Galore' Novices' Hurdle.