No Constitution Hill - but I still think we saw a youngster to beat Honeysuckle

Kirkland Tellwright is often the whipping boy for the racing keyboard warriors, but on Saturday the Haydock clerk told everyone how much rain the track had endured and that the ground was not that testing at all. I, for one, was expecting the ground to be very soft.

I read the meeting completely wrong and went for the sloggers when you needed horses with a bit of pace. To that end it was a real shock to see A Plus Tard run as he did because we all know what a quick horse he is and he should have been suited by conditions.

The time of the Betfair Chase was only six seconds slower than it was when he won last year and half a minute quicker then when the ground was really soft in 2020 when Bristol De Mai won.