IT is fair to say that the 2019 Ladbrokes King George VI Chase at Kempton was an odd race which takes a bit of unravelling.

On the one hand, you had a back-to-back winner storming 21 lengths clear of classy rivals in a time much quicker than the Grade 1 novice chase at the same distance a bit earlier; on the other, there were just five runners, and four finishers, and more than a suspicion that none of the beaten horses fully gave their running.