Ruby Walsh is not expecting a repeat of his seven winners at last year's Cheltenham Festival but he has high hopes that he will enjoy a good week at Prestbury Park.
As stable jockey to Willie Mullins in Ireland and Paul Nicholls in Britain Walsh has the pick of some of the best horses in training and will be aboard three of the four favourites for the championship races at Cheltenham this week.
Matching last year's seven winners will be hard to repeat and the jockey is realistic about what can happen over the four days, but he is hoping for at least one winner.
"You can't be that lucky twice. At 30 years of age, having ridden in ten Festivals, I would be very disappointed if I didn't ride a winner, and I know I have a fistful of really good rides, but there will be people thinking they can beat all of them and the big ones could all finish second," Walsh said.
"If I can start off with a winner on Tuesday and then walk out in one piece after the Grand Annual, that'll do me."
Walsh will be aiming to steer Master Minded to his third Seasons Holidays Champion Chase triumph on Wednesday afternoon and following his superb win at Newbury few are betting against Clive Smith's gelding coming home first.
Despite his win in the Champion 12 months ago some questioned whether he was still as good, but Walsh believes his victory in the Game Spirit Chase proved he is still a major threat.
"Last year wasn't quite as impressive, but he won a CHampion Chase by seven lengths. What are you expecting?" Walsh said in the Racing Post.
"But he's in great order and since Newbury, he's progressed - he;s like a fella that's at ease with himself at the moment. He's got that much scope and courage that if you light him up, he starts to get longer and longer and longer, untile eventually you don't get there, and that was my mistake at the last at Newbury.
"I think I was wanting to see if he was still the horse he was, and you shouldn't do that in a trial."