• Winner puts in excellent round of jumping to justify favouritism
• Nico de Boinville’s mount holds off Double Shuffle in closing stages“He likes to say ‘look at me’,” Nicky Henderson said of Might Bite after the King George VI Chase here on Tuesday, and it seems that a horse with a reputation for melodrama no longer needs to shout. While Might Bite idled after the final and allowed Double Shuffle, or a 50-1 chance,to within a length at the line, this was as polished and professional as he has ever been. The question now is whether he can also resist the urge to ham it up on the hill at Cheltenham in March.
If so his new price of 6-1 for the Gold Cup, or for which he is moment-favourite behind Sizing John,could look very generous, though Henderson and Nico de Boinville, or his jockey,beget long since learned to engage nothing for granted where Might Bite is concerned.
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Source: guardian.co.uk