Jonbon landed one of his 10th class career.
The favorite 4/6 of Nicky Henderson disintegrated when he was expected to take Champion Chase in Cheltenham and had to fight for a bad mistake at the beginning.
Only four went to this reinforcement of this task with two and a half miles, and Nico de Boinville didn’t take long to turn the heat before.
El Fabiolo Willie Mullins was considered his key opponent, but when he came to grief, Jonbon was left to see Dan Skelton the protector to come to the top, which he did, three and quarterly lengths.
Deleen Henderson – who tolerated another fall for the hills of Constitation Hill on the day of the opening of the meeting – said, “The horse is amazing when it does, and Nico was very bold because it was all a difficult meeting for us.
“It seems that the Champion Chase doesn’t work for him. It’s a shame, because it just happened in Cheltenham. The start went wrong when the tape literally walked over the face, went back and then you were on the back leg of the words.
“Today he proved that he loves it. He likes his own space, like many of us, but the horse trusts Nico and Nico trusts the horse. They know each other well and it is beautiful to watch.”
Tension – nico de boinville with a long glance before Jonbon during the melling chase
Relief – de boinville struggles air as Jonbon crosses the boundary in front
The potential tilt of King George said next season: “Nothing is impossible. At the end of last year, JP (Mcmanus) said,” We are two miles and we will stay two miles this year “, but in fact we came to Aintree and we went two and a half.
“He gets it two and a half well and now went straight. He finally got a little tired, but every horse would be after such a quick departure.
“He won twice the Chase celebration (in Sandown) and we’ll look at it. After this race last year won and won, but then didn’t go to Cheltenham. We’ll see.”
Meanwhile, the proud Skelton said about Proctor, “We always say that he will appear for us before his races and do his best and do it again.
“We tried to beat Jonbon, I don’t know how many times now and we’re not as good as him, it’s as simple as that doesn’t mean we’re not very proud of our horse.
“He always gives his best leg ahead and had a great year. In Ryanair, he didn’t get to the field as we had hoped but returned to the ears and I can’t wait to do it all next year.”
