Six winners but still underwhelmed - and a temperamental TV doesn't help

"Just 'cause things are different, don't mean anything has changed." Things Are Different, by Irish rock band Picture This

It certainly looked that way when Appreciate It bolted up in the Supreme. Imagine Mike Tyson winning a ballet competition. Horses of his size and stature aren't meant to win Supreme Novices'. His piston-like strides ground the opposition to a pulp, and then some.

I don't wake up sweating in the middle of the night wondering how I managed to get him beat in the Champion Bumper last year, I swear. If you were to look only at his form, the Champion Hurdle would be the obvious option, but to look at the horse as an individual, chasing is surely where his future lies.