Character Building @ 16/1 Blue Square 1/4 odds, 1.2.3.4.5 (20/1 Ladbrokes, first four)

Also creeps under the 11st barrier with 10st 10lb on his back and we know he stays as he went close in the 4m1f National Hunt Chase at the 2007 Cheltenham Festival and won the Kim Muir Chase at that meeting last year, when threading his way through the field to take it up after the last.

He's lightly-raced since but his underrated trainer John Quinn has had this race in mind all season and has been making some confident noises of late. He's unproven over the fences but is a careful jumper who looks after himself a bit and that's what you need around here.