CAUSE Of Causes has had some mixed fortune in his career, but things came right for him at Cheltenham on Tuesday and he won the four-mile Listed Toby Balding National Hunt Chase by a length and a half.

Last year he was runner-up in the Fulke Walwyn Kim Muir Challenge Cup Chase, having blundered at the last, a performance that came two and a half months after he had been beaten by only a short-head in the Grade B Paddy Power Chase at Leopardstown.