Willie Mullins' potentially great Galopin Des Champs heads 47 entries for the Brown Advisory Novices' Chase at the Cheltenham Festival 2022.

The six-year-old put up a breathtaking display on his debut over fences at Leopardstown at Christmas when making all to win by a startling 22 lengths.
That performance sent him straight to the top of the ante-post market for the three-mile test at Cheltenham.
Galopin Des Champs won the Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys' Handicap Hurdle at last year's Festival and took the Grade 1 One Irish Mirror Novice Hurdle at the Punchestown Festival in April.

Bravemansgame is the second favourite with Paul Nicholls' charge, taking his unbeaten record over fences to three in the Grade 1 Kauto Star Novices' Chase at Kempton.

Like plenty of Festival possibles, Galopin Des Champs has at least one other option at jumps HQ. His is the Turners Novices' Chase over two and a half miles.
Bob Olinger is odds-on with some bookmakers for that race after his solid success in the Kildare Novice Chase at Punchestown on Sunday.

Henry de Bromhead's seven-year-old, winner of the Ballymore Novices' Hurdle in 2021, is among 44 entries, with 23 from Ireland.

Venetia Williams has a strong chance with L'Homme Presse, who added to his 100 per cent record over fences in the Dipper Novices' Chase at Cheltenham on New Year's Day. He's another entered in the Brown Advisory.

Although L'Homme Presse has yet to stretch beyond two miles and five furlongs, Andy Edwards, who owns the gelding in partnership with Peter and Patricia Pink under the DFA Racing banner, believes the gelding could run in either race, with the ground important to a decision.
He said: "What race we run in will be ground dependent. If it came up soft he would go for the shorter race and if it came up quick he would go for the longer option.
"You have got to have options as you don't want to go down a one-way street as you can't turn back. He has got the pace to run in the Turners, but he has got the stamina to run in the Brown Advisory.
"I was at Venetia's yard yesterday and I spoke to Charlie Deutsch (jockey) and he was very open minded. There is a long way to go and you know how many bad luck stories there are of horses not getting to Cheltenham."
The Willie Mullins-trained Ferny Hollow is an eye catching entry in the Sporting Life Arkle Novices' Chase on the back of his Grade 1 victory at Leopardstown on Boxing Day.
Half of the 24 entries are based in the Emerald Isle with a hefty nine from the Mullins camp. As well as Ferny Hollow, they include Blue Lord, Haute En Couleurs and Saint Sam.
Edwardstone, trained by Alan King, looks like leading the British challenge after he completed a hat-trick over fences in the Wayward Lad Novices' Chase at Kempton following a Grade 1 win in the Henry VIII at Sandown.
The Irish also have a uncomprimising presence in the National Hunt Novices' Chase with 21 entries, from a total of 48, including Gordon Elliott's pair of Run Wild Fred and Fury Road, plus Willie Mullins' Stattler and Capodanno.