Can anything stop the favourite? - Paul Kealy gives his horse-by-horse verdict

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Politologue: won a far from vintage Champion Chase

Politologue: last year's winner is set to face a stiffer task this timeCredit: Patrick McCann (racingpost.com/photos)

The Racing Post Cheltenham Festival Guide 2021 is out now, priced at £12.99, and features top tipsters, Q&A with the bookmakers, Racing Post Ratings, verdicts and ones to watch for every race, plus Paul Kealy's race-by-race guide to the Grade 1s with in-depth profiles of more than 100 horses. In this extract, he looks at the Queen Mother Champion Chase.

Chacun Pour Soi
Trainer Willie Mullins

Hugely talented if fragile nine-year-old who missed three years after joining Willie Mullins but then turned into a top-class two-miler once he got going. Was set to be one of the ‘big three’ in the most eagerly awaited Champion Chase for years 12 months ago, but was one of two of them to come out after the declarations, leaving the other, Defi Du Seuil, to flop completely in the race won by Politologue.

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Published on 4 March 2021inIn Focus

Last updated 15:18, 4 March 2021

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