IN the week that the death was announced of Glenview Stud’s Robin Des Champs, sire of five Cheltenham Festival winners in Quevega (six times at the meeting), Sir Des Champs, Un Temps Pour Tout, Vautour and Blow By Blow, the Philip Hore-bred Sizing Tennessee landed a pot of £140,000 when winning the Grade 3 Ladbroke Trophy Chase for trainer Colin Tizzard and in the colours of the late Alan and Ann Potts.

Robin Des Champs was trained by Guillaume Macaire to land four of his five starts over hurdles, all at Auteuil, and he retired to stud at the age of four. His biggest success came in the Prix Stanley Hurdle and his sole defeat came in the Prix Aguado Hurdle in which he finished second.