A YEAR one from winning the Grade 1 Ascot Chase, the last time Paul Nicholls saddled a winner at racing’s highest level, that race’s winner Pic D’Orhy, a son of Turgeon (Caro), won it again, this time as a sprightly 10-year-old.

Alongside his success in the Grade 1 Melling Chase, this was the gelding’s third Grade 1 win, and his fifteenth since he first visited the winner’s enclosure as a three-year-old in France.