Cheltenham Festival 2012: Nicky Henderson delighted with his strong team as he stands on verge of landmark Binocular apart, the names of the principal members of his squad trip off the tongue with familiarity: Long Run, Sprinter Sacre, Bobs Worth, Oscar Whisky, Finian's Rainbow, Riverside Theatre, Burton Port, Darlan, Barbers Shop, Simonsig and, though this will never quite trip off the tongue, Quantitativeeasing. There's strength in depth and a lot of chances. But the only one we've got that everyone else will be frightened of is Sprinter Sacre, otherwise all the others have horses we're frightened of. Tuesday was work day at Seven Barrows and Henderson's good humour suggested all had gone according to script. Long Run will have one more session with [jumping expert] Yogi Briesner and he'll have his ear plugs in for the parade but Sam [Waley-Cohen] will take them out at the start like he did at Newbury last time. Maybe we'd got him a bit too relaxed this season. It's a different Kauto Star we are playing with this year and I'm afraid we'll be very unpopular if we beat him. But the score's two-all and it's all to play for. Kauto was going through a little patch last year, which is why people were baying for his retirement. I wish Paul Nicholls had listened to them! Binocular, he felt, appeared back to the form he was in when winning the Champion Hurdle two years ago. And while he conceded the Arkle Chase favourite Sprinter Sacre had not beaten much apart from a sick Peddlers Cross, he added that his three victories were all in outstanding times. He is worried about the "bounce factor," when horses follow a good run after a long break with an appalling one, for Burton Port in the Gold Cup but not for Riverside Theatre in the Ryanair while Darlan had shown no ill-effects from a heavy fall in the Betfair Hurdle when coming to take it up at the second last. Hope borders on belief that Oscar Whisky will give Big Buck's his biggest test in his pursuit of a fourth successive World Hurdle. He has a great chance of being there at the last and giving Big Buck's a fight. The trainer is a famous insomniac and whether he runs Simonsig in the Supreme Novices or the Neptune has been ping-ponging round his mind in the middle of the night. "At two o'clock I was going two miles [the Supreme], by four o'clock I had convinced myself to go two and half [Neptune]," he said.