LINCOLN day creeps up on you and arrives on your doorstep before you have had time to fully decide whether or not it makes sense to put four horses from the Jack Richards Novices’ Handicap Chase into your tracker.

Orandi may not have been in your flat tracker from last year, or he may have been an addition, after he stayed on well to take second place behind Titanium in a mile handicap at Leopardstown in October, or after he again kept on well down the centre of track to take third place behind Rhythm King and Gleneagle Bay in another mile handicap at the Curragh two weeks later off a 4lb higher mark.