{"id":39881,"date":"2024-12-26T10:13:31","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T15:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/king-george-vi-chase-banbridge-claims-dramatic-win-over-il-est-francais\/26\/12\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-12-26T10:13:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T15:13:31","slug":"king-george-vi-chase-banbridge-claims-dramatic-win-over-il-est-francais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/king-george-vi-chase-banbridge-claims-dramatic-win-over-il-est-francais\/26\/12\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"King George VI Chase: Banbridge claims dramatic win over Il Est Francais"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Banbridge overhauled long-time leader Il Est Francais at the last fence to claim a dramatic win in the King George VI Chase at Kempton.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Il Est Francais had been ahead under James Reveley for almost all of the three-mile Boxing Day showpiece and built up a comfortable lead, and with two to go Banbridge was the only horse who looked likely to challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the last, the leader was less than fluid and the 7-1 chance jumped it better and raced clear for Paul Townend and trainer Joseph O&#8217;Brien.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Il Est Francais (9-2) held on for second, with L&#8217;Homme Presse (14-1) third for Charlie Deutsch and Venetia Williams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier, the 2023 champion hurdler Constitution Hill made a welcome return to action with a third win in the Christmas Hurdle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">More to follow<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/horse-racing\/articles\/c20n4431ddlo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banbridge overhauled long-time leader Il Est Francais at the last fence to claim a dramatic win in the King George VI Chase<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/king-george-vi-chase-banbridge-claims-dramatic-win-over-il-est-francais\/26\/12\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[6583,300,211,357,6584,6585,138,1548,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39883,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39881\/revisions\/39883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}