Talking Horses: Chacun Pour Soi can put rivals in their place at Sandown

It was a very different story at Punchestown on his final start of last season as Chacun Pour Soi was allowed to trade blows with Allaho from the get-go. Picture: Healy Racing

It’s hard to escape the conclusion that Chacun Pour Soi’s best chance of winning a Champion Chase probably came and went at Cheltenham last March but that shock reversal shouldn’t detract from the fact that the Willie Mullins-trained nine-year-old is a top-class two-miler chaser.

Five dominant Grade One wins illustrate that reality and the absence of Shishkin from today’s Betfair Tingle Creek Chase at Sandown has left the way clear for Chacun Pour Soi to extend that impressive tally to six.