Edredon Bleu heads Peterborough entries

EDREDON BLEU, who dominated the Peterborough Chase for four years from 1998 to 2001, heads the entries for this year’s contest in the likely absence of stablemates Best Mate and Impek.

With that duo entered for Saturday’s Huntingdon race but heading instead for Exeter and Clonmel respectively, responsibility will fall on the admirable 12-year-old to give Henrietta Knight her sixth win in seven years in the Grade Two event.

There are 12 others entered in the race, over two and a half miles of the Cambridgeshire track, but with the Martin-Pipe-trained pair of Seebald and Upgrade as well as Henry Daly’s Hand Inn Hand also in the William Hill Chase at Exeter on Friday, the field may get smaller.