After race at Aintree Sat, 10th Apr, 2021 (1st)  It’s always difficult after Cheltenham to know how much to do with them. Obviously they are fit, but the team have done great because they came here in pretty good nick. Both are very good novices though, they’ve had pretty nearly perfect seasons. Nico said he could have done with a lead for longer. Gumball usually goes a solid gallop, but he didn’t today. He’s a very laid-back horse and at home you don’t see the speed you see on track. He’s got a wonderful temperament and I suspect he was just getting lonely. Fair play to the second, though. It’s amazing how quick he gets to the other side of a fence, it’s a very effective technique but it is a bit unusual. He won’t go to Punchestown, doing the two is difficult, doing the three, you need to be Sprinter or something, who did it one year. You’d like to think it will be the normal two-mile route next year, and I’d like to think Altior is at Sandown in two weeks. If they meet next year, they have to meet. It’s amazing we’ve gone from Sprinter to Altior and this lad is going the right way the whole time. Nicky Henderson

After race at Cheltenham Tue, 16th Mar, 2021 (1st)  We’d always hoped (to win like that), but you never expect. It was strange, it will be all week without the crowds, but it doesn’t make it any easier watching them. Winners here are winners tough and without the crowd they are still special. We knew there was going to be plenty of pace, I didn’t know the other horse (Captain Guinness) would take him (Allmankind) on as well. But he’s got a high cruising speed and just sat on their tails. He came wide and had plenty of space, but he was impressive the way he came up the hill. We’ve had great days here in this race, Sprinter Sacre, then Altior followed him and it’s a shame he’s missing this week, but it’s extraordinary to find another. He looked as good as the other two did in this race today. He’s got a long way to go to match them, but you had to be delighted with what he did today. It was a different challenge today. We schooled on Thursday and he nearly hurdles his fences, he’s very quick which frightens you a little. He’s very fast, he’s always looked like a chaser but he’s definitely a two-miler, he’s just a natural. Nicky Henderson

After race at Cheltenham Tue, 10th Mar, 2020 (1st)  We say it every year, that something will come and bite you and sadly this year it was Altior, so it’s a relief to begin with a winner. He was one of our more powerful shots of the week, but all three ran well really (Allart was fifth) — they are three lovely horses. I couldn’t see what was happening to Shishkin coming down the hill, he got slightly hampered and Barry (Geraghty) looked in the right place on Chantry House, but Shishkin has got those gears — and he needed them. Nico was cool-headed, we know he’s cool round here. Nicky Henderson