By Cornelius Lysaght BBC racing correspondent

Here are 10 horses I feel may be worth following during the main part of the jump racing season.

While some are 'mainstream', others aren't, and do not appear in the list of horses qualified for the Racing Post's Horses-to-Follow competition.

Black Jack Ketchum (trainer: Jonjo O'Neill)
Champion jockey AP McCoy's continual enthusiasm for BJK provided some of the striking quotes and images of last season.

One to watch: Black Jack Ketchum

He didn't take on the biggest boys at the Cheltenham Festival, but won his race in a manner that would indicate big things are ahead in long distance hurdles this season.

Everyone dreaming of success in the World Hurdle at the Festival must fear being mugged by the brilliant horse named after a US gangster.

Detroit City (Philip Hobbs)
He won the Triumph Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival last March in great style, and, as significantly perhaps, battled on from a seemingly impossible position to take Flat racing's Cesarewitch in October.

Tough and honest, he will jump steeplechase fences in time, but this season can become the second Hobbs-trained grey coloured horse to carry the predominantly yellow silks of owner Terry Warner to success in the Champion Hurdle after Rooster Booster (2003).

Gungadu (Paul Nicholls)
The new champion trainer has (literally) dozens of exciting horses at his Somerset stables, but it was impossible not to be taken with Gungadu when he won a novices chase at Cheltenham in October.

Looking like an old hand, and pretty much foot-perfect, the winning distance was something like 11 lengths, but it could have been 111. He has a very bright future.

Triumph Hurdle winner Monet's Garden

Lightning Strike (Venetia Williams)
An expensive purchase at Tattersalls' Newmarket horse sales out of the Terry Mills stable, this talented and athletic Flat racing performer looks just the part for hurdling, and will be aimed at the best juvenile events in the months ahead.

Livingonaknifedge (Ian Williams)
Considering Williams was not having a lot of luck at the time, this horse ran a cracker when making its steeplechasing debut at Cheltenham in October, finishing third. Much more can be expected of him.

Monet's Garden (Nicky Richards)
It's been too long since a top notch steeplechaser emerged from the north of England, but Cumbrian-trained Monet's Garden, an excellent runner-up in last season's Arkle Trophy at the Cheltenham Festival, can change all that.

The Arkle has been a big signpost towards the Cheltenham Gold Cup in recent years, and that's where this very light grey horse is surely bound after the King George VI Chase at Kempton on Boxing Day. His first time at Carlisle in October could not have been more encouraging.

Our Vic (David Pipe)
Our Vic is not one for the fickle or faint-hearted because although winning his first race of the season - the Charlie Hall Chase at Wetherby - in really impressive style, the horse is prone to the odd terrible run. But the eight-year-old, owned by businessman David Johnson, is just the sort to help put his young trainer, son of the recently retired Martin, on the map in his own right.

Robert Thornton rode Voy Por Ustedes to Arkle glory

Never Awol (Ben Pollock)
No one can entirely explain the 'horses for courses' rule, but it often works well for punters, not least at the demanding Towcester track in Northamptonshire. Never Awol has won all of his three chases at the course, and judged by his first run of the season, he will be popping up in the winner's enclosure there again soon.

Too Forward (Carl Llewellyn)
Now with first-season trainer (and still occasional jockey) Carl Llewellyn, Too Forward won his initial race of the campaign, at Wetherby, like a horse that will, as they say, "go on from here". His form with Our Vic at a Cheltenham fixture in April looks very strong, and there is a valuable handicap chase or two in him in the months ahead.

Voy Por Ustedes (Alan King)
Talk about upwardly mobile. At just five-years-old, Voy Por Ustedes did nearly everything asked of him last season, and recorded a memorable victory over Monet's Garden in the Arkle Trophy at Cheltenham in March.

During the upcoming season the horse, Voy Por Ustedes is set to build further on his already big achievements, and I'm sure that the Queen Mother Champion Chase can be within his grasp.