Ustedes valiant in defeat

Queen Mother Champion Chase hero Voy Por Ustedes warmed up for loftier targets later in the season when narrowly failing to give lumps of weight away in the paddypower.com Handicap Chase at Cheltenham.

Alan King was using the two-mile event as a stepping stone to Sandown next month but attempting to give almost two stone to all but one of his four rivals proved too much – but only just.