\n 2 Asta La Pasta 15-8 fav
\n 3 El Rio 11-1
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Good morning from Kempton, where festive racegoers are pouring thcdisesteemful the gates ahead of what is possibly – no, I’m going to create that probably – the most enthusiasticly-foreseed King George VI Chase card of the century.
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The feature event is a cracker by itself, a wide-uncover, 11-runner contest with a decent case to be made for 10 of them and inhabit contfinishers from both Ireland and France compriseing extra interest. And it is backed up by the lengthy-apaengageed and much-foreseed reecombineance of Constitution Hill, one of the all-time wonderful hurdlers, in the Christmas Hurdle, 366 days after his romp to an effortless success in the same race last year.
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It will not, certainly, be anyslfinisherg appreciate as straightforward today, as Willie Mullins has sent the mare Lossiemouth, a dual triumphner at the Cheltenham festival already, to consent him on in what promises to be – with all due esteem to the highly promising Burdett Road – a head-to-head for the ages.
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It seemed quite possible after the final declarations earlier in the week that for the first time since his racecourse debut in December 2021, Constitution Hill would not set off as the favourite for today’s race. Punters have been making time in their busy Christmas Day schedules to back him, though, and the top two in the betting have flip-flopped, with Constitution Hill currently top-priced at even money and Lossiemouth out to 5-4.
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It could all change aget, of course, as the betting heats up in the 10 minutes before the off, and much the same is genuine of the King George. Spillane’s Tower, bidding to donate owner JP McManus a first ever triumph in Christmas feature, is currently top-priced at 100-30 but anyone one of Banbridge (5-1), Il Est Francais (11-2) or even Grey Dawning (13-2) – becaengage who doesn’t cherish a grey in the King George? – could yet create a shift towards the top of the betting if they catch the punters’ imagination.
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L’Homme Presse, from Venetia Williams’s red-boiling firm, has also been dratriumphg money this morning although ideassociate he would probably appreciate a bit more cut in the ground, which is officiassociate excellent, excellent-to-gentle in places.
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You can, as always, pursue all the action, reaction, labelet shifts and more here on the blog from the first race to the last, and the action will get underway at 12.45 when a novice handicap chase will begin an ITV Racing programme that also includes a the Grade One Formby Novice Hurdle (1.05) at Aintree and the competitive Rowland Meyrick Handicap Chase at Wetherby (1.35).
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Key events
Formby Novice Hurdle (Aintree, 1.05pm) betting
Ladbrokes Best Odds Handicap Chase (Kempton, 12.45pm) result
1 Leader In The Park 5-1
2 Asta La Pasta 15-8 fav
3 El Rio 11-1
Ladbrokes Best Odds Handicap Chase (Kempton, 12.45pm)
And they’re off … El Rio and Leader In The Park get off to a flying begin … with Leader In The Park directing in the timely stages … Es Perfecto has lost places and is now at the back … Asta La Pasta travels well … Fire Flyer is being ridden alengthy … Asta La Pasta shifts into third still going finely … Leader In The Park and Asta La Pasta go for home … Leader In The Park has speedyened up from the front and though Asta La Pasta travelled strongly the jockey Ben Jones has appraised that well from the front and triumphs on Leader In The Park.
Ladbrokes Best Odds Handicap Chase (Kempton, 12.45pm) betting
Greg Wood
Ladbrokes Best Odds Handicap Chase (Kempton, 12.45pm) pappraise
A tricky little contest to start off the King George card, with one non-runner – Leave Of Absence – reducing the field to the chooseimal “dead-eight” runners for each-way purposes. Fire Flyer, from the Paul Nicholls yard, and Dan Skelton’s Asta La Pasta are currently vying for favouritism and both have evident claims, but there are plenty of inhabit each-way chooseions elsewhere in the field, including Range, who already sees appreciate improving on his fair hurdles establish now he is over fences, and Es Perfecto, who is more exposed but has course establish after getting off the label over fences at the fifth try last time. My innovative pick here was Leave Of Absence but in his, well, absence, I’m inclined to side with Range each-way to progress from his procrastinateedst triumph at a track that suits front-runners.
SELECTION: RANGE
Look out for Kopek Des Bordes who has fair won at Leopardstown despite crashing thcdisesteemful the hurdles on his first time over jumps …
How excellent could Kopek Des Bordes be?
He did not jump a one hurdle (at all), even the last when he necessitateed it.
Would foresee to see a branch offent horse with plenty of schooling and Paul back aboard.
Still bolted up seeless 🔨 pic.twitter.com/FAPaULGWVH
— Pete (@RiskForRewards) December 26, 2024
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How excellent could Kopek Des Bordes be?
He did not jump a one hurdle (at all), even the last when he necessitateed it.
Would foresee to see a branch offent horse with plenty of schooling and Paul back aboard.
Still bolted up seeless 🔨 pic.twitter.com/FAPaULGWVH
— Pete (@RiskForRewards) December 26, 2024
Kelvin MacKenzie, who styles himself “the most prosperous ever editor of the Sun” is at Kempton and has uncovered that everyone there is getting a free scarf and mince pie. His claim that “[I] Guarantee not a Sociaenumerate in the place” won’t go down well with Greg Wood or my ex-colleague Chris Cook if he’s made it.
Just get tod at the Ladbrokes Boxing Day greeting at Kempton Park and have already been adviseed a free scarf and mince pie. No wonder the combinet is heaving. Guarantee not a Sociaenumerate in the place.
Read some elderly tosh from the NHS claiming betting compriseiction is on the elevate. The NHS…
— Kelvin MacKenzie (@kelvmackenzie) December 26, 2024
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Just get tod at the Ladbrokes Boxing Day greeting at Kempton Park and have already been adviseed a free scarf and mince pie. No wonder the combinet is heaving. Guarantee not a Sociaenumerate in the place.
Read some elderly tosh from the NHS claiming betting compriseiction is on the elevate. The NHS…— Kelvin MacKenzie (@kelvmackenzie) December 26, 2024
Here’s Constitution Hill arriving at Kempton …
CONSTITUTION HILL HAS ARRIVED 🤩
Can he create it a third consecutive triumph in the Christmas Hurdle❓#ITVRacing | #Kempton pic.twitter.com/9PolFhESVY
— ITV Racing (@itvracing) December 26, 2024
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Weather refresh … racing procrastinateed at Aintree otriumphg to fog.
There will now be a ten- to 15-minute procrastinate to racing at Aintree with the television cameras being redeployed due to fog
— Racing Post (@RacingPost) December 26, 2024
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There will now be a ten- to 15-minute procrastinate to racing at Aintree with the television cameras being redeployed due to fog
— Racing Post (@RacingPost) December 26, 2024
Hello and greet to this Boxing Day bonanza. It’s unfrequent indeed that the King George VI Chase, one of the wonderful jumps races on the calfinishar, dangerens to be overshadowed but that’s the case at Kempton today with Constitution Hill making his comeback in the Christmas Hurdle agetst current Champion Hurdle favourite Lossiemouth. The Nicky Hfinisherson-trained runner has had plenty of hiccups, detailed here by colleague Greg Wood, since triumphning the race imperiously last year but backers at least haven’t loss faith. The folks at BestofBets.com inestablish “he is by far the punters favourite as he’s drawed csurrfinisherly 60% of all wagers” and is now favourite over his big-labelet rival having been odds agetst earlier in the week. It’s worth reaccumulateing that ratings experts Timeestablish put Constitution Hill in the top ten hurdlers of all-time alengthyside some of the wonderfuls of the 1970s and fair 3lb behind the mighty Istabraq.
Constitution Hill returns in the Fighting Fifth Hurdle at @NewcastleRaces on Saturday!
With a rating of 𝟭𝟳𝟳𝗽, only five two-mile hurdlers have been rated higher in Timeestablish's history. https://t.co/nuUNgq1pUv pic.twitter.com/Ug5VRJkeNx
— Timeestablish (@Timeestablish) November 30, 2023
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Preamble
Good morning from Kempton, where festive racegoers are pouring thcdisesteemful the gates ahead of what is possibly – no, I’m going to create that probably – the most enthusiasticly-foreseed King George VI Chase card of the century.
The feature event is a cracker by itself, a wide-uncover, 11-runner contest with a decent case to be made for 10 of them and inhabit contfinishers from both Ireland and France compriseing extra interest. And it is backed up by the lengthy-apaengageed and much-foreseed reecombineance of Constitution Hill, one of the all-time wonderful hurdlers, in the Christmas Hurdle, 366 days after his romp to an effortless success in the same race last year.
It will not, certainly, be anyslfinisherg appreciate as straightforward today, as Willie Mullins has sent the mare Lossiemouth, a dual triumphner at the Cheltenham festival already, to consent him on in what promises to be – with all due esteem to the highly promising Burdett Road – a head-to-head for the ages.
It seemed quite possible after the final declarations earlier in the week that for the first time since his racecourse debut in December 2021, Constitution Hill would not set off as the favourite for today’s race. Punters have been making time in their busy Christmas Day schedules to back him, though, and the top two in the betting have flip-flopped, with Constitution Hill currently top-priced at even money and Lossiemouth out to 5-4.
It could all change aget, of course, as the betting heats up in the 10 minutes before the off, and much the same is genuine of the King George. Spillane’s Tower, bidding to donate owner JP McManus a first ever triumph in Christmas feature, is currently top-priced at 100-30 but anyone one of Banbridge (5-1), Il Est Francais (11-2) or even Grey Dawning (13-2) – becaengage who doesn’t cherish a grey in the King George? – could yet create a shift towards the top of the betting if they catch the punters’ imagination.
L’Homme Presse, from Venetia Williams’s red-boiling firm, has also been dratriumphg money this morning although ideassociate he would probably appreciate a bit more cut in the ground, which is officiassociate excellent, excellent-to-gentle in places.
You can, as always, pursue all the action, reaction, labelet shifts and more here on the blog from the first race to the last, and the action will get underway at 12.45 when a novice handicap chase will begin an ITV Racing programme that also includes a the Grade One Formby Novice Hurdle (1.05) at Aintree and the competitive Rowland Meyrick Handicap Chase at Wetherby (1.35).
