David Bass celebrated his first victory at The Cheltenham Festival last year aboard Darna in the Brown Advisory & Merriebelle Stable Plate on St Patrick's Thursday.

Evan Williams is looking forward to seeing Buywise return for another crack at the £160,000 Paddy Power Gold, the highlight of The Open, which takes place at Cheltenham on Saturday week.

Kim Bailey is looking forward to seeing how Darna gets on in Saturday's Caspian Caviar Gold Cup, but Dan Skelton has ruled What A Warrior out of the race.

The Showcase, Cheltenham's opening meeting of the season, continues on Saturday, October 20, with an exciting seven-race card headed by two £50,000 handicap chases - the BetVictor.com Trophy (2.30pm, 35 entries) over two and a half miles and the extended three-mile Ryman The Stationer Handicap Chase (3.40pm, 29 entries).