Brian Hughes hoping for flying Festival start with Double W's

Brian Hughes is hoping to get next week's Cheltenham Festival off a flyer when he has three rides on Tuesday's opening card for trainer Malcolm Jefferson.Hughes, who is the north's leading jockey this season with 123 winners, teams up with Cloudy Dream and Cyrus Darius in two of the showpiece races but is particularly keen on Double W's in the Close Brothers Novices' Handicap Chase.The seven-year-old has had a decent first campaign over fences, winning at Carlisle and Wetherby as well as finishing second to Upsilon Bleu at Doncaster on his latest start after a poor effort at Newbury."Cloudy Dream goes for the Arkle. There's a hot favourite in there, but hopefully he can run well," Hughes told At The Races."Cyrus Darius is in the Champion Hurdle. Obviously it's an open race and he has got to improve again, but hopefully he'll run well."And in the last, the novices' handicap chase, I ride Double W's. He's a horse we love and has been running well. He's had one poor run at Newbury but apart from that, all his runs have been pretty good."We thought he was harshly done to early on in handicaps because he'd won a few OK handicaps. He won them well, but got put up a lot. Thankfully the handicapper left him on 140 after his last run, which was a good run."I have those three rides the first day and two the second. I'm not sure about the rest of the week."