Altior looks just Champion

The hype that surrounds Presenting Percy should ensure Monalee goes off a tasty price in today’s RSA Insurance Novices’ Chase and Henry De Bromhead’s charge is fancied to do the business in a race that historically separates the men from the boys.

Presenting Percy carries a huge reputation but on the two previous occasions he has stepped up to Grade One level he has been found wanting.

It was a similar story in Grade Two Red Mills Chase at Gowran Park last month when he was outbattled by Our Duke, to whom he was getting 7lbs, despite Jessica Harrington’s Gold Cup hopeful clouting the fourth last.