Golden Silver defied worries about the quicker ground to run out an impressive winner of the Boylesports.com Champion Chase.

Merely another stalker thriller handicapped by the obvious fact that Knowles can’t act … and by the fact that we’ve seen it all before, done with more style and menace.

As with all sequels, we have here a pale shadow of a memorable original. Merely, the same again.

Few sportsmen have experienced as many high and lows as 35-year-old American John Daly.