A maiden winner in France, he made his hurdles debut at Taunton a month ago and couldn’t have been more impressive. He jumps his hurdles with great fluency and didn’t come off the bridle to win by an extremely comfortable 2 lengths. The opposition wasn’t up to much, but the manner of victory was very taking. Connections are talking of the Victor Ludorum in two weeks time, then either the Triumph or Boodles; in which case he wants to be winning this.