Jonbon is officially better than ever and thinking he won’t win at Cheltenham because of the track is nonsense
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IT’S official. Jonbon ran the best race of his life at Ascot on Saturday in the Grade 1 Clarence House, recording a mark of 171 for the first time. That’s what I can tell you thanks to help from the official handicappers Chris Nash and Mark Olley. It’s appreciated, lads.
![[Jockey Nico de Boinville on Jonbon winning the Clarence House Steeple Chase at Ascot.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2024-jonbon-ridden-jockey-nico-964703377.jpg?strip=all&w=640)
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Many professionals out there will continue to tell you the star two-mile chaser - trained brilliantly by Nicky Henderson - is better going right-handed than left, the way he will have to go to land the biggest test of them all for his type, the 2025 Queen Mother Champion Chase.
The immediate cliche thrown at us all is that Jonbon can’t be as good left-handed as he has only ever been beaten - at Grade 1 level at least - at Cheltenham. But that is a load of b******* in my opinion. I’ve looked closely at this before, but let's just go through things again.
