We’ve all nodded along sagely to warnings that Double Gameweek players don’t necessarily outscore their single-fixture counterparts, but it takes a week like this to make us actually believe it.

Dermot Weld’s Cheltenham hero Silver Concorde will bid to complete a Festival double in the championship bumper at Punchestown next month.

Only six players have ever done the double of United States and British Open titles in the same year, but Webb Simpson may not even try to join them.

Jim Goldie is “very tempted” to let Nanton take his chance in the second leg of the Autumn Double – the totesport.com Cesarewitch at Newmarket on Saturday week.