It’s the real start of the National Hunt season with the Showcase meeting at Cheltenham so lets go for the jugular straight away in the opening race on the card at 2.00 with my selection For Good Measure.

Trainer Philip Hobbs had a very average season last year and as a consequence of that a lot of his horses are pretty well weighted.

A really good staying handicap hurdler for the West Country handler, the nap selection has only twice raced over fences and those runs were over two miles and two-and-a-half miles, very much an insufficient test of stamina for this seven-year-old.