THE French AQPS (autre que pur sang) breeding programme has been tremendously successful in producing top-class National Hunt horses and it may have one of its most brilliant representatives to date in the Willie Mullins-trained gelding Un De Sceaux.

Right now he is only a novice chaser, and we will have to see him take on the very best in open Grade 1 company before he can earn that accolade, but what he has achieved to date has been very exciting.