Trip and class question marks hanging over Quevega in “Champion’

I had minor doubts about Fiveforthree staying three miles, but he certainly got the trip well at Punchestown yesterday.

You can never be absolutely sure about such things, not until a horse goes out onto the track and does it.

I had similar worries about Kauto Star staying three and a quarter miles, the first year he landed the Cheltenham Gold Cup.

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