Best Mate poised to take his revenge in Sunbury showdown

KEMPTON PARK is set to play host to a vintage renewal of the Pertemps King George VI Chase on St Stephen’s Day.

Last year's runner-up Best Mate is the hot favourite to go one better in the £150,000 contest at the Sunbury track after taking the Tote Cheltenham Gold Cup and the McCallum Corporate Consulting Peterborough Chase on his two subsequent starts.

The Henrietta Knight-trained seven-year-old impressed on his reappearance in the Peterborough in November, turning in a great round of jumping to romp home.