Knight eyes King George glory after Somersby victory

HENRIETTA KNIGHT is eyeing a third victory in the King George VI Chase at Kempton after seeing Somersby make a most impressive return to action at the Sunbury track yesterday.

Knight saddled her triple Gold Cup hero Best Mate to land the St Stephen’s Day feature in 2002 and followed up 12 months later as Queen Mother Champion Chase hero Edredon Bleu led his rivals a merry dance.

Somersby has yet to reach the heights of those two but has shown top-class form over the last couple of seasons, only finishing out of the first three once since his last victory in December 2009.