UPDATED 6:37PM, DEC 27 2020
The Queen Mother Champion Chase is about the only marquee jumps race Willie Mullins has still to plunder and Chacun Pour Soi cemented his position at the head of its ante-post market by purring to victory in the Paddy s Rewards Club Chase under Paul Townend on Sunday.
Returned a 4-7 shot, he glided to an emphatic six-and-a-half-length triumph from his main market rivals Notebook and Put The Kettle On. It laid to rest the ghost of his shock defeat in the same €100,000 Grade 1 a year earlier, and, although Altior had yet to be conquered at Kempton, you would imagine such a polished turn would have left the champion trainer happy. Everything was as it should be.