OUT with the old and in with the new. Or, rather, the other way round if you are Sandown Park, where the end of the British jumps season last Saturday came the day after the Classic Trial and other group races announced the start of the flat season for the course.

Sandown cannot compete with the sustained brilliance of Punchestown the following week, but it did manage to tempt connections of Altior to give their star a seasonal swansong in the bet365 Celebration Chase, which he won comfortably rather than easily in the absence of Cyrname on ground which the times suggested was “good to firm” on the chase course.