Nicky Henderson felt the extra half a mile and the generous 10lb allowance that Lulamba will receive in Saturday’s Turners Mersey Novices’ Hurdle at Aintree made swerving Thursday’s juvenile race a fairly easy decision.

The Triumph Hurdle runner-up had been expected to line up against his own age group in the Boodles Anniversary 4-Y-O Juvenile Hurdle over two miles and a furlong.