IT will be very interesting to see how Altior gets on today. He is a superstar of course, he has only been beaten once over obstacles, and he has 12lbs in hand of today’s rivals on official ratings.

But he is 10 now, he had a hard race at Ascot, and his last two runs last season were not up there with his very best. In Dynamite Dollars he faces one of last season’s leading two-mile novice chasers, one who hasn’t raced in over a year but one who goes well fresh, and Kalashnikov wouldn’t be out of it either if he bounced back to his best in his first-time cheekpieces. Throw Sceau Royal and Bun Doran into the mix, and this is not a foregone conclusion.