“He likes to say ‘look at me’,” Nicky Henderson said of Might Bite after the King George VI Chase at Kempton, and it seems that a horse with a reputation for melodrama no longer needs to shout. The question now is whether he can also resist the urge to ham it up on the hill at Cheltenham in March. If he tries to do it for a third time on March 16th, De Boinville should at least be ready for him. Black Corton, meanwhile, is a 20-1 chance for the RSA Chase after winning for the sixth time in seven starts for Bryony Frost in the Kauto Star Novice Chase. “This little horse started off just an average little chap at the back of the class, but now he’s an A-star student,” Frost said.

Source: The Irish Times December 26, 2017 15:45 UTC