Five of the last ten winners of the Silver Trophy arrived with the benefit of race-fitness from a recent start, but this year’s running is packed with horses having their first outing of the season.

The three remaining Group One races of the season will decide almost all of the champion horse awards, giving what ... One Stewards’ Cup and Queen’s Silver Jubilee Cup earlier this term.

Josh The Boss provided Nigel Twiston-Davies’s team with a “slight tonic” when winning the Wasdell Group Silver Trophy Handicap Hurdle – just over half an hour after the stable lost talented chase ...