Faugheen in good form for long-awaited comeback

A week later than intended and in Cheltenham, rather than Ascot, Un De Sceaux gets his chance in the Clarence House Chase. The change of venue doesn’t really make any difference to him, the biggest difference to the race is that it’s a £70,000 race, and it would have been a £150,000 race had it been run last week.

The shape of the race has changed a little bit, with the inclusion of Uxizandre and Special Tiara, and the absence of Ar Mad. It’s a good while since Uxizandre has run, and you’d imagine we have a fitness edge over him, but there was only a short head between Un De Sceaux and Special Tiara in last season’s Champion Chase.

We’re happy with Un De Sceaux, but he was in Ascot last week, he came home, rode out a couple of days and did a bit of work which told us he was in good form. But he has now travelled back to Cheltenham, and who knows what effect that will have on him.