WHAT was that about the Jonjo O’Neill team being out of form?

The Pertemps Qualifier at Warwick last Saturday was the type of race where you watched the O’Neill-trained runner make some late progress from a never threatening position and place him into your Cheltenham notebook.

Instead Join The Clan hit the front three furlongs out and kept going, running out an easy winner.

The yard might have hit form earlier than normal and it looks like business as usual in the countdown to March.