L'Antartique lands dramatic Paddy Power Chase

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Liam Heard, substituting for the injured Walsh, had not asked the five-year-old a question when he suffered what proved to be a fatal fall.

L'Antartique and Graham Lee jump the last on their way to victory in the Paddy Power Chase at Cheltenham

But Graham Lee had bided his time through the early stages on Ferdy Murphy's seven-year-old - who had won at the Festival in March - and they clung on to win by a neck from the fast-finishing Il Duce.

Knowhere stayed on for third under a big weight, with Palarshan in fourth.

Lee told Channel 4 Racing: "He's a proper horse isn't he?

"They went very quick and he jumped superb - it's the best he's jumped. The boss said to me in the Jewson last year just to tough it out from the top of the hill.

"I wasn't really concerned when he started to freewheel down the hill and I got there too soon again.

"He's a tough horse. It's natural ability and he's got a lot of it."

Granit Jack's trainer Paul Nicholls, who had earlier seen Willyanwoody fatally injured, said: "He was dead when we got there.

"He was jumping so well at that point and I don't even think it was a mistake. I'm a bit mystified, I think it must have been something to do with his landing."