The 2025 King George VI Chase

[edgt]

What are the chances of a 1987 blow out when Dessie and Beau Ranger went too quick and Nupsala picked them off at 16/1.
I can see Banbridge doing similar , in my dreams at least !
Course form has huge value here as Truncheon suggests.
Great race whatever happens.

 

[maureen]

I've taken 20/1 Il Est Français. Probably should't be anywhere near that price.

So that’s two of us shouting for him then! Takes me back to when I felt guilty for backing The Fellow all those years ago…

 

[Ian_Davies]

Course form has huge value here

The King George historically has had more multiple winners farming it than you can shake a stick at.

 

[archie]

Good course form is a positive.

Poor course form is a negative.

Lack of a run at the course clearly isn't a positive but neither can it be considered a negative. For all the multiple winners, I imagine you can find a matching course debut winner like Hewick or Tornado Flyer who both beat a previous winner of the race.

 

[Frankel]

Good course form is a positive.

Poor course form is a negative.

Lack of a run at the course clearly isn't a positive but neither can it be considered a negative. For all the multiple winners, I imagine you can find a matching course debut winner like Hewick or Tornado Flyer who both beat a previous winner of the race.

So that narrows it down to 8 then!

 

[Ian_Davies]

Since 1972 13 horses - Pendil two, Captain Christy two, Silver Buck two, Wayward Lad three, Desert Orchid four, The Fellow two, One Man two, See More Business two, Kicking King two, Kauto Star five, Long Run two, Silviniaco Conti two and Clan Des Obeaux two - have won 32 King Georges between them.

Obviously debutants in this race can win it - and there was, of course, a first time for all of those above - but I think it emphasises the specialist nature of both Kempton Park and the race itself.

I also believe it's a race that doesn't bottom horses in the way the Cheltenham Gold Cup (IIRC only four multiple winners in that time frame) sometimes does.

 

[maureen]

Best horse wins the KG. Best horse on the day wins the Gold Cup. As Richard Burridge said at the time, for the GC to have the prestige it should have Dessie has to run it in. Probably doesn’t apply now but it did back then.