Ante-post favorite Allaho heads a subject of six for the Ladbrokes King George VI Chase at Kempton on Boxing Day.
Willie Mullins’ runner has received eight of his 13 chase begins up to now, together with two wide-margin Ryanair Chase verdicts and a equally spectacular Punchestown Gold Cup win in 2022.
He made a passable return to motion after a 561-day absence at Clonmel final month and is brief value for the Christmas spotlight.
Final 12 months’s victor Bravemansgame returns to defend his title for Paul Nicholls, though his marketing campaign has not gone to plan to date this time period with the eight-year-old having suffered odds-on defeats in each the Charlie Corridor at Wetherby and the Betfair Chase at Haydock.
Frodon, winner of the race in 2020, provides Nicholls a second string to his bow, with common companion Bryony Frost taking the trip.
The Nicky Henderson-trained Shishkin can also be on one thing of a redemption mission as he makes his seasonal bow. He refused to begin at Ascot final month whereas a deliberate Combating Fifth Hurdle prep was scuppered by testing floor at Sandown.
The Actual Whacker, winner of the Brown Advisory at Cheltenham final time period, and Shark Hanlon’s Hewick full the road up, with Gerri Colombe and Royale Pagaille absentees as anticipated.
The champ is again!
Structure Hill is the headline act within the Ladbrokes Christmas Hurdle, which additionally has six contenders.
Henderson’s two-mile champion is lengthy odds-on to increase his unbeaten run over obstacles, with the Nicholls-trained Rubaud the subsequent greatest on rankings, albeit some 26lb behind.
The favorite will likely be joined by stablemate First Road, with Kerry Lee probably double-handed with Black Poppy and Nemean Lion. Alan King’s Sceau Royal is the opposite runner.
Il Est Francais represents France within the Ladbrokes Kauto Star Novices’ Chase. Educated by Noel George and Amanda Zetterholm, Il Est Francais has been a dominant power at house and has 5 rivals at Kempton, led by Nicholls’ Hermes Allen.
Giovinco, Kilbeg King, Marble Sands and Tightenourbelts additionally line up, with no Irish illustration after Mullins and Gordon Elliott didn’t declare Grangeclare West, Klassical Dream or Think about respectively.