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The Neville Hotel Chase was reduced to three runners because of "drying ground".
This left Battleoverdoyen virtually unopposed and thus his unbeaten record wasn't challenged.
Sharjah came through in the Matheson after favourite Klassical Dream made a mistake at the 4th, giving amateur Patrick and father Willie another Gr 1. Second went to Petit Mouchoir and Couer Sublime seemed to have breathing issues.
Very strange to see that the reason for scratching Apple's Jade from the Matheson was given as "off his feed", considering he had gone round 24 hours earlier. They can't seriously have been thinking of running him in this (even though he had a soft win on Saturday?