King George VI Chase assembly: horse racing – live updates from Kempton Park | King George VI Chase

1 Constitution Hill 1/12 f
2 Rubaud 15/2

And they’re off … Rubaud leads within the early phases … Constitution Hill is shut up in second … Sceau Royal can be outstanding … Black Poppy is on the again … Constitution Hill begins to make his transfer … good leap on the second-last and kicks clear for a simple win. That was little greater than an train canter.

• Constitution Hill 1/11

• Rubaud 15/2

• First Street 28/1

• Sceau Royal 40/1

• Black Poppy 50/1

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Ladbrokes Christmas Hurdle (1.55pm) preview

Greg Wood

From a betting standpoint, that is more likely to be a non-event, as Constitution Hill is to this point forward of his rivals – certainly, each different hurdler on the planet – that defeat is all however inconceivable. His worth is hovering round 1-10, and whereas the five-year-old Rubaud is a brand new opponent for Nicky Henderson’s gelding and arrives on a four-race profitable streak, that kind nonetheless offers him round two stone to seek out with the odds-on favorite.

SELECTION: CONSTITUTION HILL

1 Il Est Francais 13/8
2 Hermes Allen 11/8 f

Amnd they’re off … Il Est Francais in lead and leaping very properly … Hermes Allen is second … Tightenourbelts not very fluent there … Giovinco in third and getting nearer with a circuit to go … Il Est Francais nonetheless main and leaping fluently and now going additional clear … Marble Sands is pulled up … Hermes Allen not too far behind in second however the chief kicks once more … a spectacular leap 4 out … Kilbeg King tries to shut … Hermes Allen tries to shut too however Il Est Francais jumps the final and simply wins – that was a superb efficiency.

• Hermes Allen 6/4

• Il Est Francais 6/4

• Giovinco 9/2

• Marble Sands 16/1

• Tightenourbelts 25/1

• Kilbeg King 30/1

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Kauto Star Novice Chase (1.20pm) preview

Greg Wood

A cracking Grade One novice chase and a welcome trace that French leaping might be on an upward trajectory after a decade or extra when most of their finest prospects have been instantly snapped up for six-figure sums and shipped off to Ireland. Il Est Francais, the winner of his first two begins over fences at Auteuil, is a captivating contender from Noel George and Amanda Zetterholm’s yard close to Chantilly, and could be the primary French-trained winner at this assembly since 2002, when Guilliaume Macaire’s Jair Du Cochet received the identical race. He is clearly a positive prospect Timeform’s evaluation of his kind to this point offers him a good bit to seek out with the favorite, Hermes Allen, nevertheless, and Paul Nicholls’s runner, who began off over fences with a win in a Grade Two occasion, is more likely to take all of the beating.

SELECTION: HERMES ALLEN

1 Blow Your Wad 10/3 f
2 Outlaw Peter 12/1
3 Es Perfecto 6/1

And they’re off … Outlaw Peter has the early lead … Idalko Bihoue strikes as much as lead … Es Perfecto is on the again however it’s early days … Russian Ruler has been leaping to his proper … and isn’t going properly … Idalko Bihoue nonetheless on the entrance … Russian Ruler takes a extra outstanding place … Plenty in with an opportunity however Outlaw Peter heads for residence … Blow Your Wad makes a problem … and involves take the lead on the final and goes on to win.

• Russian Ruler 7/2

• Idalko Bihoue 4/1

• Blow Your Wad 9/2

• Es Perfecto 6/1

• General Medrano 13/2

• Off To A Fly 7/1

• Outlaw Peter 11/1

• Kotmask 16/1

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Ladbrokes Novice Handicap Chase (12.45pm) preview

Greg Wood

A fiendishly tight-knit handicap to kick off the Kempton card, and a case could be made for all eight runners. Russian Ruler is the slim favorite, maybe as bookies expect loads of multiples on Nicky Henderson’s runners over the afternoon. He made a passable begin over fences in a handicap at Newbury in the beginning of the month, and the primary two residence have each received since, however Russian Ruler has already had a number of wind ops and didn’t present fairly as a lot as you may like for a market chief in a race like this. Blow Your Wad confirmed a number of promise too on his chase debut in mid-November, however I’m going to row in with Idalko Bihoue, who was positioned in Grade One firm over hurdles and appeared to have discovered a lot, with additional progress possible, when profitable at Cheltenham in late October.

SELECTION: IDALKO BIHOUE

Preamble

Greg Wood

Good morning from Kempton Park, the place a boisterous post-Christmas crowd is assembling for one of the conventional afternoons on the observe within the racing calendar.

A choose subject of six, all however considered one of which is able to go to submit with a really believable probability, will contest the King George VI Chase at 2.30, with the winner becoming a member of a listing that features many – certainly, most – of the best names in leap racing over the past 60 years.

It was the scene of considered one of Arkle’s most memorable victories in 1965, and in addition his remaining race a yr later (of which no movie is understood to exist, because the BBC didn’t ship its cameras that yr). It was the race which turned Desert Orchid right into a family identify within the mid-Eighties, and has subsequently been received by excellent chasers together with Best Mate, One Man and, after all, the incomparable Kauto Star, profitable 5 instances in six years between 2006 and 2011.

The dominant coach on this race over the past quarter of a century has been Paul Nicholls, who received his first King George with See More Business in 1997 and has been racing up subsequent wins on the fee of just about one over two years to the purpose the place he now has an astonishing 13 wins in all. See More Business, Kauto Star, Silviniaco Conti and Clan Des Obeaux, the primary 4 of his six people winners, all went on to document no less than another victory, and the ultimate two – Frodon (2020) and Bravemansgame (2022) – are each within the subject for immediately’s renewal.

Frodon and Bryony Frost, who missed out on a rapturous reception when profitable at 25-1 behind closed doorways three years in the past, are 50-1 outsiders for immediately’s race, however Bravemansgame is vying for favouritism with Willie Mullins’s Allaho, with only a quarter of some extent between the 2 horses at current at 9-4 and 2-1 respectively.

Add within the mercurial Shishkin, who has been backed in to round 7-2 as punters financial institution on him deciding to leap off with the sphere, plus two live each-way photographs in The Real Whacker and Hewick, and a memorable race is in prospect.

Constitution Hill, the perfect jumper in coaching, can be strutting his stuff within the Christmas Hurdle at 1.55, whereas three excellent novice chase prospects are in opposition within the Grade One Kauto Star Novice Chase at 1.20.

You can, as ever, comply with all of the motion right here on the weblog as one of the eagerly-anticipated playing cards of the yr, and the motion is underway at 12.45.