TOP Gamble’s defeat of three rivals - one of them, Dodging Bullets, absent for 11 months and easy to back - in the Game Spirit Chase was another tricky race to assess from a form point of view, though analysis of overall times does suggest the gelding ran at least as well as previously in the process.

Top Gamble’s timefigure comes out at 159, while his sectional from three out (a fraction over three furlongs from the finish) was around a dozen lengths faster than those for the winners of the longer-distance chases on the same card.