Backbord is set to run in the Pertemps Final rather than the Coral Cup at the Cheltenham Festival.

Albertas Run leapt to the head of the betting for the Royal & SunAlliance Chase by flattening some lofty reputations at Ascot.

Bureaucrat, who threw away certain victory when falling at the final flight on his debut over jumps, made up for that lapse with a fluent pillar-to-post victory for Phillip Hobbs and Richard Johnson in the Karcher Juvenile Novices' Hurdle.