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[b]Gregg Taylor evaluates the performance of Timeform's top-rated chaser, along with the other big races from the weekend.[/b] [b]Kauto Star[/b] (c191) made a pleasing return to action when taking the JNwine.com Champion Chase by four lengths from [b]Sizing Europe[/b] (c162). The outstanding chaser of his generation needed only to run to a bare figure of 166 to notch a fourteenth success at Grade 1 level, showing no ill effects from his fall in the Cheltenham Gold Cup as he jumped impeccably close to the steady pace. The performance should set up him nicely to run closer to his best in his next objective, whether that be running off a mark of 190 in the [b]Hennessy[/b] later in the month or attempting to record an unprecedented fifth victory in the [b]King George[/b]. Both his nearest...