Edwardstone, final season’s Arkle Trophy winner, took the measure of Greaneteen at the run to the overall fence after which stayed on strongly to win the Grade One Tingle Creek Chase by way of 9 lengths, with Shishkin, the 6-5 favorite, some other six lengths away in 0.33.
Shishkin moved into competition across the ultimate flip however made a mistake on the third-last and pale from there as Edwardstone (5–1), making his first get started since early April, showed himself a number one contender for the Queen Mother Champion Chase in March. . Edwardstone is now top-priced at 4-1 for the Champion Chase, in a marketplace headed by way of final 12 months’s winner, Energumene, at 7-4. Shishkin, even though, is out to 10-1 after his moment defeat in a row.
Earlier, Jonbon, the transparent favourite for the Arkle Trophy, produced a phenomenal show of leaping at pace below Aidan Coleman to win the Grade One Henry VIII Novice Chase by way of 8 lengths. The good younger hurdler Constitution Hill, a strong spouse of Jonbon on the Nicky Henderson backyard, remains to be the one horse to have crushed him, and he used to be minimize additional, to round 7-4, for the Arkle after his newest luck.
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Kelso
11.35 Dunnet Head 12.05 Cedar Hill 12.35 Domandlouis (nb) 1.05 Donna’s Delight 1.35 GitMaker 2.05 Aubis stroll 2.40 faithfulflyer 3.15 Mr Globalist
Huntingdon
12.15 Spirit D’Aunou 12.45 hardy boy 1.15 School Days Over 1.45 artwork of phantasm 2.20 Impulsive One 2.55 Do Your Job (nap) 3.25 Queen’s Gamble
“He has a very high cruising speed and can quicken it off,” Henderson mentioned. “Aidan shook the reins and he used to be long past. I might have concept another [race] can be sufficient sooner than Cheltenham. There are not many choices even if the Kingmaker [at Warwick in February] springs to thoughts.
Ben Bromley, in the meantime, used to be suspended for 28 days after changing into the newest – however nearly on no account the final – jockey to confuse the 2 successful posts at Sandown. Bromley and Call Me Lord, the 4-1 second-favourite for the Pertemps Handicap Hurdle qualifier, handed the primary successful put up – which is used for chase occasions – in entrance of Dolphin Square and David Maxwell. Bromley, even though, began to rejoice by way of status up in his irons and two strides later the hard-ridden Dolphin Square used to be forward by way of a nostril on the hurdles put up.
At Aintree, Noble Yeats returned to the scene of his 50-1 luck in final season’s Grand National and recorded an outstanding win within the Grade Two Many Clouds Chase due to an abrupt burst of completing pace between the overall two fences.
Noble Yeats used to be a amateur over fences final season and in addition the primary seven-year-old to land the National for 82 years, so in contrast to maximum winners of the Aintree showpiece, he keeps substantial scope for development and he used to be minimize to round 14-1 for the Cheltenham Gold Cup after his newest luck.
“We’ll stay each choices [the Gold Cup and Grand National] open so long as we will be able to,” Emmett Mullins, Noble Yeats’s trainer, said. “He’s opened the door a bit wider [for the Gold Cup] after that, whether we can get our heads through is another thing.”
