The Sporting Life Racing Podcast team look back on a busy festive period and pick out their star performers, most impressive novices and a few handicap eyecatchers for good measure.
Matt Brocklebank is joined by David Johnson, Billy Nash, Graham Cunningham and lead ITV Racing anchor Ed Chamberlin.
There's inevitably a lot of love for Sir Gino and Constitution Hill, while the team feel it would be "an embarrassment" for all concerned if runaway Leopardstown scorer Brighterdaysahead ends up contesting the Mares' Hurdle rather than the Unibet Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham in March.
Other novice chasers such as Ballyburn, The Jukebox Man and Impaire Et Passe come under the spotlight along with promising hurdlers Romeo Coolio, The Big Westerner, The New Lion and Potters Charm.
Our experts pick the bones out of Banbridge beating Il Est Francais in the King George VI Chase and the Savills Chase won in brilliant fashion again by Galopin Des Champs, while there are one or two gripes over the fog plus some worrying numbers surrounding Willie Mullins' festive strike-rate.
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