This time next week the world's most talented two-mile hurdlers will line up at the Cheltenham Festival in a bid to add their name to a prestigious Champion Hurdle roll of honour.

The race has the potential to be the highlight of the four-day extravaganza with two-time champion Hurricane Fly bidding to win his third title but the younger brigade will be snapping at his heels to steal his crown.

Hurricane Fly is no spring chicken anymore and even though he is lightly raced for a 10-year-old, there is a huge chance that something will improve past him from a talented crop of young hurdlers.

The one to take advantage of his ageing limbs is most certainly The New One, who is a stonking wager around the 3/1 mark.

The six-year-old thrashed a very classy field in the two-mile five-furlongs novice hurdle at last year's Cheltenham Festival and that's the key to this horse - he absolutely relishes the track.

That race has proven to be a sensational trial for the Champion Hurdle.

As it's run over 2m4f stamina is guaranteed for successful horses that drop back in trip to contest the Champion.

Recent highest placed finishers in the Neptune to have undertaken the Champion challenge the following season have all run huge races.

Istabraq, Hardy Eustace and Rock On Ruby all won while Peddlers Cross, Danoli and French Holly all finished placed.

It will prove wise to gloss over The New One's defeat to My Tent Or Yours at Kempton as that track requires more speed than stamina.

Back at Cheltenham, he'll reverse that form and then some.