Clan Des Obeaux lands victory in the King George VI Chase at Kempton for the second year in a row.
Clan Des Obeaux made it back-to-back wins in the King George VI Chase with a dominant victory at Kempton.
This was a particularly sweet victory for Twiston-Davies, who took the ride after Harry Cobden opted to ride Cyrname, and after Twiston-Davies was replaced by Cobden as number one jockey for Nicholls last year. Irish challenger Footpad was third, but the big disappointment was the Colin Tizzard-trained Lostintranslation, who seemed to be struggling to keep tabs early on and was ultimately pulled up by Robbie Power, having briefly looked like he might play a part at one stage."It's nice to have a one-two and it's nice for Sam to ride a Grade One winner," said Nicholls."I said all along it was a tough call for Harry. I couldn't really advise him what to do.
He said he would try for another King George VI victory next year."We've got to go for 12 now, haven't we? There's no reason why both horses won't be back next year."
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