Vicente’s owner Trevor Hemmings also saw his colours carried to victory by Cloudy Dream in the Grade 2 Jordan Electrics Ltd Future Champion Novices’ Chase. The seven-year-old is by Many Clouds’ sire Cloudings but, unlike that ill-fated Aintree hero, is a grey out of Run Away Dream.

Cloudy Dream, 11/4, was far from fluent with his jumping and had to work hard to reach and pass Nicky Henderson’s Theinval. Very well ridden by Brian Hughes, whose exceptional season will see him finish second to Richard Johnson in the jockeys’ championship, Cloudy Dream battled on well to score by two lengths with Oldgrangewood third.