sublime conditions there in barbados, to a rather wet and windy cheltenham now. after the buzz of crowds being back for opening day — the weather tried to dampen things. but not so for ener—gumeen, who took the honours in the queen mother champion chase at the festival. a delight for trainer willie mullins, and jockey paul townend. 0ur correspondent andy swiss is there for us. was this a surprise in the big race earlier? that's right, yes. as you say after yesterday sunshine, the conditions have been a little bit different today. we have had heavy rain all day and it has had quite an impact, particularly as they watered the course you last night perhaps underestimating the amount of rain that we would actually have today. certainly had an impact on the big race, the queen mother championship which had been billeted as a duel between the favourite and shish can did not like the conditions at all