LATEST Cheltenham Festival 2022 Champion Chase ante post: Shishkin shortens ahead of huge rival Energumene
THE Champion Chase is one of the big races at Cheltenham Festival.
And already the market ahead of the 2022 showpiece is starting to hot up.
Put The Kettle On was victorious for Henry de Bromhead and jockey Aidan Coleman in 2021.
The race marked another win for the Irish trainers – will it be any different in 2022?
Cheltenham Festival 2022 Champion Chase tips
6-4 Shishkin
4-1 Energumene
4-1 Chacun Pour Soi
12-1 Greaneteen
14-1 Allaho
14-1 Put The Kettle On
16-1 Envoi Allen
20-1 Nube Negra
20-1 Allmankind
33-1 Captain Guinness
33-1 Sceau Royal
33-1 Eldorado Allen
66-1 Tamaroc Du Mathan
Cheltenham Festival 2022 Champion Chase tips
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Sun Racing will be covering Champion Chase news, odds updates and analysis in the run-up to the race on Wednesday, March 16.
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Cheltenham Festival Champion Chase winners past five years
2021 – Put The Kettle On (Trainer: De Bromhead. Jockey: Coleman)
2020 – Politologue (Trainer: Nicholls. Jockey: Skelton)
2019 – Altior (Trainer: Henderson. Jockey: De Boinville)
2018 – Altior (Trainer: Henderson. Jockey: De Boinville)
2017 – Special Tiara (Trainer: De Bromhead. Jockey: Fehily)
Cheltenham Festival Champion Chase news
Five months out and this race is all about one horse.
Already a dual winner at the Festival, Shishkin has tightened in price without running yet this season.
Unbeaten since December 2019, when he fell at Newbury, this star of the 2m chasing division is, according to trainer Nicky Henderson, ‘bigger and stronger’ for 2021-22.
Henderson will be hoping that the seven-year-old can fill the void left by two-time Champion Chase winner Altior, who was retired at the end of last season.
Keep your eyes peeled on Energumene, though, the horse owned by billionaire Brighton owner Tony Bloom, labelled the ‘cleverest man to ever place a bet’.
He missed a showdown with Shishkin last year but the pair look all set to do battle next March.
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