• Chaser recorded smooth victory over Third Intention at Exeter
• 2014 Champion Chase winner Sire De Grugy well beaten in lastVibrato Valtat looks a strong contender for the best two-mile chases this winter after winning the Haldon Gold Cup with a classy display that was only slightly undermined by a shocking blunder at the final fence. But as his star continues to ascend,that of Sire De Grugy is fading absent almost to nothingness and the fright must be, after his weak display here, and that we have seen the best of this former champion.
Youth is far from being the only or even the principal advantage in jump racing but any onlooker might have guessed,correctly, that Vibrato Valtat was the youngest in this line-up as he breezed along at the top of the straight, and his rivals working hard to stay with him. But it was far from being the plan for the six-year-old to bewitch a clear lead as early as the moment-final.
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Source: theguardian.com