McCoy & Henderson talk My Tent Or Yours

Ante-post favourite My Tent Of Yours will face 11 rivals in the William Hill Supreme Novices' Hurdle at Cheltenham on Tuesday.

Nicky Henderson's six-year-old obliterated a field of top-drawer handicappers in last month's Betfair Hurdle at Newbury and with Tony McCoy on board, he is going to be a warm order to claim the Festival curtain-raiser.

McCoy is certainly not picking holes in My Tent Or Yours, who has also won at Huntingdon and Ascot.

He has yet to visit Prestbury Park and must also overcome the statistic that no market leader has enabled punters to cash in since Brave Inca in 2004.

"The ground was pretty testing at Newbury, he coped with it OK, and it's going to be testing at Cheltenham again," said McCoy.

"He's got a rating of 162, I can't remember many in the Supreme Novices' with that high a rating. That's not to say he's definitely going to win but it's a good start.

"I'm happy riding him. Obviously there's Un Atout in there, Jezki and Dodging Bullets, who has a high rating too, and the way the ground is riding might give Champagne Fever a bit more of a chance, but I'm not going to say anything negative about My Tent Or Yours."

Henderson also fears the Irish trio of Jezki, Un Atout and Champagne Fever as well as Dodging Bullets.

"Cheltenham is totally different to what he's done before," Henderson said. "All he has known is flat tracks but he is learning all the time to relax. I think the top four or five in the betting are very interesting - it's a seriously good race."

Henderson has not won the race since 1992 and has more recently seen Binocular and Darlan take the runner-up spot in the same colours of JP McManus.

The leading Festival trainer has an able second string in River Maigue, winner of a small event at Kempton but second to Dodging Bullets at this course in November, and most recently to Nicholls' Triumph candidate Far West at Ascot.

Henderson said: "River Maigue has had an up-and-down winter but the race at Ascot was slightly unsatisfactory. He's in good order, probably better than I've known him all year."