Yes, Altior would stay well at 2 1/2m but relatively speaking not as strongly as he stays at 2m – this is his great forte at the minimum trip. He would still hit a flat spot because that occurs when they quicken up and it would be the same at any distance. I said before I could predict him being equally effective but I’m not able to project him improving up in distance. He might.
The other horses didn’t massively underperform on Saturday, more in the half a stone or so region but Cyrname has already improved massively – on his last two runs. It’s a question of what rate of further improvement he now makes, if any.