BATTLEOVERDOYEN retained his unbeaten record over fences in the Grade 2 Liam And Valerie Brennan Memorial Florida Pearl Novice Chase but Gordon Elliott’s charge had to work harder than odds of 2/5 suggested beforehand.

The strapping six-year-old took really well to fences at Galway last month but this two-and-three-quarter-mile affair promised to provide him with a much more meaningful test and among those lying in wait was the Kim Muir hero Any Second Now.