Cheltenham Festival: Nicky Henderson stable tour

Nicky Henderson welcomed the press into his historic Seven Barrows yard on Monday morning where several of his Cheltenham Festival big guns were on parade.

Two of them were shown together, just as they will be come the opening race of the meeting in three weeks, the Sky Bet Supreme Novices' Hurdle.

Henderson was keen that Constitution Hill and Jonbon were brought out of their boxes at the same time, quipping, "they aren’t going to be split up in three weeks so you may as well see them at the same time".

There had been musings that one of the pair may be stepped up in trip so that he did not have to run two of his brightest prospects against each other. But while Henderson is confident neither would have trouble staying further in time, their best prospect of winning next month comes in the two-mile race.

"It’s the plan to run them both (in the Supreme), but they are like cheese and chalk. Constitution Hill would stand in front of everyone all day and that is how he is in life. The other horse is the complete opposite, but he did behave well today. He’s usually hyper," said Henderson.

"They are all in good form and both worked on Saturday, but not with each other and they will not, that’s too obvious, we may as well find out in three weeks. They don’t need to work together and it would ruin the whole party if we knew the answer!

"They would both get two and a half (miles) but we don’t want trials here, so there’s no point in working them together. The only time we did it with good horses was Simonsig and Sprinter (Sacre) for a couple of years as they were the only ones who could go with each other.

"If they galloped together they’d have a dust up and I don’t want that. They are very, very good."

Although smart novice hurdlers