ROSS Geraghty thought his chance of a winner was gone when top-weight Surprising Soul proved no match to Belisarius in the first division of the Foxbrook Champion Hurdle. Surprising Soul finished second.

For Geraghty, it was two down, one to go. He made that one count, engineering a perfect ride aboard Detroit Blues to collar pacesetter Gibralfaro after the last hurdle to score by a half-length in the second division of the Foxbrook.