Awesome Azertyuiop shows his class

AZERTYUIOP showed he will be a tough nut to crack in the major two-mile chases this season by defying top weight on his reappearance at Exeter yesterday.

The reigning Queen Mother Champion Chase hero slammed his six rivals in the William Hill Haldon Gold Cup to cement his position as ante-post favourite to record back-to-back victories at Cheltenham next March.

All the leading bookmakers were suitably impressed with Azertyuiop's five-length demolition of Seebald, to whom he was giving fully 18lb.