Natural order restored in the end but chaos reigns in feature events

There was something strangely apt about a horse called Trainwreck prevailing in the handicap hurdle that followed two of the most chaotic Grade 1s you will ever witness back-to-back.

Just denied the market lead at the off by the runner-up Ben Dundee, Henry de Bromhead’s fourth winner at Leopardstown’s Christmas festival restored some rational order to proceedings.

Grade 1s are supposed to promote that sort of equilibrium and for the vast majority of the Paddy's Rewards Club Chase it looked as though Willie Mullins’s Min would fulfil his brief as an odds-on jolly.