Updates from the big Boxing Day meetingGet in touch: you can email Tony with your thoughtsHermes Allen 6/4Il Est Francais 6/4Giovinco 9/2Marble Sands 16/1Tightenourbelts 25/1Kilbeg King 30/1Odds via BestofBets.comA cracking Grade One novice chase and a welcome hint that...
Updates from the big Boxing Day meetingGet in touch: you can email Tony with your thoughtsHermes Allen 6/4
Il Est Francais 6/4
Giovinco 9/2
Marble Sands 16/1
Tightenourbelts 25/1
Kilbeg King 30/1
Odds via BestofBets.com
A cracking Grade One novice chase and a welcome hint that French jumping could be on an upward trajectory after a decade or more when most of their best prospects were immediately snapped up for six-figure sums and shipped off to Ireland. Il Est Francais, the winner of his first two starts over fences at Auteuil, is a fascinating contender from Noel George and Amanda Zetterholm’s yard near Chantilly, and would be the first French-trained winner at this meeting since 2002, when Guilliaume Macaire’s Jair Du Cochet won the same race. He is clearly a fine prospect Timeform’s assessment of his form to date gives him a fair bit to find with the favourite, Hermes Allen, however, and Paul Nicholls’s runner, who started off over fences with a win in a Grade Two event, is likely to take all the beating.
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