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A breathtaking display from SPRINTER SACRE, who absolutely laughed at some good-standard rivals and leaves him at no bigger than 11-8 to win next month's Arkle at Cheltenham. He took a fierce grip in the early stages under Barry Geraghty over the first fence but did consent to settle just behind the pace as the field headed down the back straight. But Geraghty gave up the unequal struggle at the sixth as he jumped level with the leaders and then into a clear advantage at the next. He was absolutely running away approaching the cross fence and then proceeded to produce a string of fantastic leaps all the way up the home straight. He never for a moment looked like coming out of second gear as he trounced last year's winner French Opera by six lengths and broke Barnbrook Again's track record in the process. Geraghty admitted after unsaddling that he had never ridden anything like it and it is going to take an awful lot to lower his colours at the Festival. In an ideal world he would drop anchor a little more in the early stages to help his jockey against high-class rivals like Peddlers Cross and Al Ferof but Sprinter Sacre could just be a freak. Time will probably tell that French Opera's attempt to give him five pounds was an impossibility and he ran a very sound first race. He holds an entry in the Ryanair Chase and that looks the next logical step. I'm So Lucky was the only other runner to raise anything like an attempt to go in pursuit of Sprinter Sacre up the home straight and he kept on pretty well for third. He looks below top grade and one of the handicaps at the Festival will be his best route. Zaynar seems to have regained some zest for the game this season but the bottom line remains he is an unpredictable character. His best efforts have come when allowed a clear sight of the front but he was never ever able to lay up with Sprinter Sacre down the back straight. He dropped out of contention from the cross fence and plodded home in his own time. Hold Fast had looked promising after his win at Sandown in early January and although this was tougher, he put in a disappointing display. He was struggling at the cross fence and that was that - he is surely capable of better. Veteran Kinkeel regularly pitches up for these events and the requisite search party was sent out for the old boy but he did complete in sixth.