Victory in the Betfair Tingle Creek Chase marks the eight-year-old out as a Champions Chase contender.
Edwardstone, ridden by jockey Tom Cannon. Image: PA ALAN KING’S ARKLE hero Edwardstone marked himself out as a Champion Chase contender as he lowered the colours of defending champion Greaneteen and Shishkin in the Betfair Tingle Creek Chase at Sandown.
However, he proved well worth the wait and having been smuggled into contention by big-race pilot Tom Cannon, showed a frightening turn of foot once tackling Greaneteen at the second-last and stormed clear up the Sandown hill to record an emphatic nine-length success at 5-1, with Shishkin another six lengths back in third.
King said: “I have to thank Nicky Henderson for letting me work him there last week. But in reality mine usually need a run back, and if he’d finished third or fourth I would have been happy enough. But to win, I’m ecstatic.
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