Energumene was an odds-on shot for Wednesday’s Champion Chase before running the only sub-par race of his career last time out and he appeals as an excellent bet at around 7-4 to win the two-mile chasing championship for the second year running.
Willie Mullins’s chaser appeared to be ridden to beat Edwardstone, his main market rival on Wednesday, in the Clarence House Chase at the end of January at Cheltenham, and also did himself no favours with a blunder at the last.
