Edwardstone is expected to add the Queen Mother Champion Chase to last year’s emphatic Arkle Challenge Trophy triumph to prove himself the best two-mile chaser in Britain and Ireland.
His four-and-a-quarter-length romp at the 2022 Festival was the high point of an impressive rookie campaign over the larger obstacles, and Alan King’s nine-year-old made a taking return to action in the Grade 1 Tingle Creek Chase at Sandown Park at the start of December, streaking to a nine-length supremacy over Greaneteen , with Funambule Sivola , a 40-1 second in the Champion Chase 12 months ago, last of the sextet.
