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Champion Chase tips and predictions
After last year’s impressive winner Marine Nationale was an 11th-hour absentee after a minor setback at home, a field of 10 runners were declared for the Champion Chase, headlined by last month’s impressive Leopardstown winner Majborough.
Majborough is the form horse but odds-on favourites in this race have obliged just three times in 12 attempts this century and he can be taken on with that in mind.
Il Etait Temps @ 5/1
Perhaps the best performance we’ve seen in this division so far this season was IL ETAIT TEMPS in the Tingle Creek at Sandown in December.
He romped home some nine lengths clear of Jonbon, with L’eau Du Sud nine further back in third. It was his fifth win on the trot at the time, dating back to the Arkle at Cheltenham in 2024 when he was third.
Gaelic Warrior was untouchable that day and perhaps it is too easy to slate Il Etait Temps for his 0-3 record at this Festival.
He was not disgraced as Marine Nationale won the Supreme in 2023, finishing fifth, and he had filled the same berth in Vauban’s Triumph Hurdle a year previously.
He fell in the Clarence House at Ascot in January but never seemed himself in that race, which came at a time when the Mullins team were going through a lull, by their standards.
Forgive that run and Paul Townend’s partner would be jostling with his stablemate for favouritism.
L’eau Du Sud @ 9/2
Another of this season’s standout efforts over two miles came from L’EAU DU SUD in the Shloer Chase at Cheltenham in November when he torched Jonbon by 15 lengths on his seasonal return.
At that point he was 4-6 over fences and he was only beaten a length-and-a-half in the Arkle at Prestbury Park last season.
Things did not go his way in the Tingle Creek but he has been kept fresh since and typically goes well off a break.
He was second in the 2024 County Hurdle at this course and is 2-3 over fences either side of that Arkle fourth.
Drying ground favours him and the Skelton team have been waiting for this day. If the top Irish pair do not perform over the jumps, he will pick up the pieces and his own very positive fencing ability could add more pressure to Majborough’s jumping.
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