IT is difficult to precisely evaluate the performance that Bristol De Mai put up in winning the Grade 1 Betfair Chase at Haydock on Saturday. It was good, for sure, it was very good, but exactly how good and, as importantly, how good are the chances that he can reproduce it? Away from Haydock?

He won by 57 lengths, he beat the 168-rated Cue Card by 57 lengths, with the 166-rated (in Britain) Outlander nine more lengths back in third, and the 164-rated Tea For Two another half a length back in fourth.