• 20-1 win is three weeks after poor show at Fighting Fifth
  • Paisley Park takes Porsche Long Walk Hurdle at the last

Everyone loves a character and Not So Sleepy, who is apparently building a following through his unpredictable antics, will have gladdened many hearts by running away with the Betfair Exchange Trophy for the second year in a row.

The word headstrong hardly seems enough to describe the way the chestnut launches himself into a race and it ought to have cost him on sodden ground but he kept his wheels turning to defy odds of 20-1.

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