Talking Horses: Energumene can put down Cheltenham Festival marker

Elsewhere on Festival Trials Day, Grand National hero Noble Yeats can enhance his Gold Cup claims by winning the Grade Two Paddy Power Cotswold Chase

CLASS ACT: Champion Chase hero Energumene strolled to victory in the Grade Two Hilly Way Chase at Cork last month and can make a winning return to Cheltenham by landing the Clarence House Chase on Festival Trials Day. Picture: Healy Racing

Energumene can crown another cracking week for Willie Mullins by getting the better of Edwardstone in the rearranged Albert Bartlett Clarence House Chase on Festival Trials Day at Cheltenham.

The nine-year-old’s only career debut over fences came in this Grade One contest last year when Shishkin got up late to thwart him in the race of the season at the contest’s usual home of Ascot.