ALAN King did very well indeed in the opening weeks of the season and, even though Philip Hobbs overshadowed everyone last week, the master of Barbury Castle was still on the scoresheet with Uxizandre in the Listed Shloer Chase over two miles.

Owned by J.P. McManus, the winner stays further but a series of fluent jumps for Geraghty meant he always had his five rivals at full stretch.