NIck is joined by writer and broadcaster Lydia Hislop as the build up to the Cheltenham Festival intensifies. Gordon Elliott is first up today, with news of his likely Champion/Stayers' Hurdle teams plus the latest on a host of other stable stars and riding plans. Also on today's show, Harry Derham explains why he is unlikely to run Givemefive, Kim Bailey pays a deeply emotional tribute to retiring First Flow, while exiting GBR CEO Rod Street looks back on his 15 years in the role. Dullingham Park's Ollie Fowlston is this week's Weatherbys Bloodstock guest, while Dan Barber joins the line-up with the Timeform perspective on those eleventh hour absentees from Festivals past.