The two-time Ryanair Chase winner is almost unstoppable at his best and it would take a serious performance to lower his colours if he were at his peak. Whether he has the gears and tactical speed for a much sharper test like the King George remains to be seen but it’s interesting that his trainer isn’t shying away from the possibility.Īllaho looks the better fit for the King George test, in truth.

Gerri Colombe is second favourite behind Galopin Des Champs for the 2024 Cheltenham Gold Cup after taking down a bunch of top-level winners with a stirring late charge in the Ladbrokes Champion Chase at Down Royal, a performance which indicates that he’ll have no problem with the Gold Cup trip at Cheltenham. Two chasers at different stages of their careers and with quite different optimum conditions, both bring Grade 1-winning form to the table on right-handed tracks, an important factor when assessing the contenders for this contest. Only one of the last 17 King George Chase winners has been trained in Ireland but if the likes of Gerri Colombe ( 11/4) and Allaho ( 5/1) make the trip over the Irish Sea on Boxing Day then the chances of that poor record being improved are obvious.

His bold jumping, strong travelling style gets many a high-class rival in trouble a long way from home and if anyone can get him spot on for the big day, it is surely his master trainer Paul Nicholls. Bravemansgame is particularly well suited to the conditions of a King George, especially if ground conditions are not too testing. Sure, he has a month in which to be freshened up for what was always his main mid-season aim, but he will not arrive at Kempton anything like as fresh as he was 12 months ago, when he didn’t race between his Wetherby reappearance and the Kempton Grade 1. That was his fourth defeat since last year’s King George and it remains to be seen whether he can hit the heights of the 2022-23 season. The Gold Cup runner-up is a general 9/4 with betting sites to repeat his heroics from last Christmas but he was as short as 6/4 prior to a six and a half-length defeat in the Betfair Chase, a race that would have taken a good bit out of him. Bravemansgame has dominated ante-post betting for the 2023 King George VI Chase for most of the year but anyone holding a ticket on last year’s resounding winner might just be getting the jitters.

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