IF you’re a horses for courses and distances advocate, then you’re probably a Victtorino supporter in the three-mile premier handicap chase at Ascot today.

Venetia Williams’ horse sprang a 20/1 surprise when he won the Sodexo Gold Cup over today’s course and distance in early November, and he proved that that wasn’t a fluke when he followed up off a 4lb higher mark over the same course and distance at the Long Walk Hurdle meeting just before Christmas.