Call Me can lord it in Imperial Cup

Horses for courses will be one of the themes of Cheltenham Festival week with history consistently showing the importance of course form when it comes to the four most magical days in the racing calendar. That self-same logic applies away from Cheltenham too, a reality that makes Call Me Lord of considerable interest in today’s pre-Cheltenham highlight, the Matchbook Imperial Cup.

In theory, Nicky Henderson’s charge faces a mammoth task given he must concede upwards of a stone to each of his rivals in the Sandown feature. The fact Blowing Wind (1998) is only top weight to oblige since Lanzarote way back in 1973 illustrates the scale of that challenge.