CHELTENHAM is about getting the answers to most – if not all – of the questions posed during the winter and the Supreme provided a firm response to who had the best two-mile novices, Britain or Ireland, Britain by a wide margin.

The pre-race market, governed largely by models these days, loved the British runners, Old Park Star solid as favourite and Sober Glory perhaps the gamble of the day (along with Kurasso Blue in the National Hunt Chase), the pair coming clear with Mydaddypaddy, a British-trained outsider in fourth.