IT makes sense that Altior’s price for the Champion Chase was trimmed on the back of his victory in the Game Spirit Chase at Newbury last Saturday.

True, Nicky Henderson’s horse didn’t do anything more than we knew he was capable of doing. And he did it in Altior’s style, a style to which we have grown accustomed. He hit the flat spot that is now part of his make-up, and he picked up when his turbo kicked in, as it always does, over two miles anyway.