POLITOLOGUE is the rock-solid option for the Grade 1 Matchbook Betting Exchange Clarence House Chase (3.35) at Ascot. Paul Nicholls’ 10-year-old might lack the brilliance of last year’s winner, Defi Du Seuil, while another market rival, the fragile Waiting Patiently, still has the potential for further success at the top level.
But backers of Politologue’s rivals live in hope rather than expectation that today will be their day. Not so, supporters of the favourite, who arrives at Ascot at the top of his game.
Politologue, on whom Harry Skelton makes way for Nicholls’ stable jockey Harry Cobden, ended last season with a nine-and-a-half-length supremacy from stablemate Dynamite Dollars in the Queen Mother Champion Chase at Cheltenham in
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