The Gordon Elliott-trained Galvin can follow up last year’s win in the National Hunt Novices’ Chase by winning the blue riband event at this year’s Cheltenham Festival.

That’s the view of Mike Edwards, a racing man through and through, who believes the Irish will be celebrating at the end of tomorrow’s Gold Cup (3.30pm).

“He’s proved he stays three miles, six furlongs,” said Edwards, “and he won a big race at Leopardstown at the end of December when he beat A Plus Tard.

“He’s a reasonably unexposed horse but the Gold Cup is run at such a pace, if you can get a horse that stays you are always in with a chance.”

The Henry de Bromhead-trained A Plus Tard, a winner of the Novices’ Handicap Chase back in 2019, will have his supporters, of course, as will the Willie Mullins-trained Al Boum Photo, a two-times Gold Cup winner, and last year’s Gold Cup winner Minella Indo, who is trained by De Bromhead.

“They are all highly rated,” said Edwards, “but if you want an outsider then Tornado Flyer is worth looking at.”

Edwards is hoping that the County Handicap Hurdle (2.10pm) will provide Gloucestershire with a winner through I Like to Move It, who is trained by Nigel Twiston-Davies in the heart of the Cotswolds.

Visitors to Prestbury Park in October and November will have seen the five-year-old ease to successive victories and Edwards said: “This is a meeting that Nigel Twiston-Davies always seems to do well in.”

Knight Salute is the form horse in the Triumph Hurdle (1.30pm) with five wins on the spin but Edwards has a sneaking fancy for the Gordon Elliott-trained Pied Piper.

“I like the look of Pied Piper,” he said. “He’s only run twice but he’s won twice, he murdered everything. One of those wins was at Cheltenham in January on the new course, he won by nine lengths.

“Davy Russell never moved on it, he never broke sweat.”