J.P. McManus is in a position to take on the Gigginstown horses wherever and whenever he wants but he has been racing in Britain quite often recently and there was no doubt a quiet smile of satisfaction when Buveur D’Air accounted for Samcro so easily.

In all he had six British winners on Saturday – Style De Vole and Champagne Platinum, both odds-on and both trained by Henderson and ridden by Geraghty at Newcastle, plus the impressive Kapcorse (12/1) and Champ (9/2 joint-favourite) at Newbury. Being the sportsman he is, he will also have smiled when 50/1 shot Jerrysback went in for the revitalised Philip Hobbs at Bangor after never being sighted at Cheltenham.