LATEST Cheltenham Festival 2022 Champion Chase ante post: Tingle Creek winner Greaneteen SLASHED in price

THE Champion Chase is one of the big races at Cheltenham Festival.

And already the market ahead of the 2022 hotting up nicely.

Marc Aspland – The TimesPut The Kettle On was a worthy winner of the Champion Chase in 2021[/caption]

Put The Kettle On was victorious for Henry de Bromhead and jockey Aidan Coleman in 2021.

The race marked another win for the Irish trainers – will it be any different in 2022?

Cheltenham Festival 2022 Champion Chase tips

7-4 Shishkin

9-4 Energumene

6-1 Greaneteen

10-1 Chacun Pour Soi

12-1 Nube Negra

14-1 Allaho

20-1 Envoi Allen

20-1 Put The Kettle On

20-1 Captain Guinness

33-1 Allmankind

33-1 Sceau Royal

33-1 Eldorado Allen

33-1 Sky Pirate

40-1 Editeur Du Gite

66-1 Tamaroc Du Mathan

66-1 Notebook

Cheltenham Festival 2022 Champion Chase tips

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Sun Racing will be covering Champion Chase news, odds updates and analysis in the run-up to the race on Wednesday, March 16.

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Cheltenham Festival Champion Chase winners past five years

2021 – Put The Kettle On (Trainer: De Bromhead. Jockey: Coleman)

2020 – Politologue (Trainer: Nicholls. Jockey: Skelton)

2019 – Altior (Trainer: Henderson. Jockey: De Boinville)

2018 – Altior (Trainer: Henderson. Jockey: De Boinville)

2017 – Special Tiara (Trainer: De Bromhead. Jockey: Fehily)

Cheltenham Festival Champion Chase news

Five months out and this race is all about one horse.

Already a dual winner at the Festival, Shishkin has tightened in price without running yet this season.

Unbeaten since December 2019, when he fell at Newbury, this star of the 2m chasing division is, according to trainer Nicky Henderson, ‘bigger and stronger’ for 2021-22.

Henderson will be hoping that the seven-year-old can fill the void left by two-time Champion Chase winner Altior, who was retired at the end of last season.

Keep your eyes peeled on Energumene, though, the horse owned by billionaire Brighton owner Tony Bloom, labelled the ‘cleverest man to ever place a bet’.

He missed a showdown with Shishkin last year but the pair look all set to do battle next March – and the prospect of that has got even better after Energumene won comfortably at Cork on December 5.

Dan Skelton’s Nube Negra was more than halved in price after a six-length romp over Politologue in the Shloer Chase, where Put The Kettle On came more than 10 lengths behind the winner.

Skelton said after the race: “That was brilliant, absolutely magic and I’m chuffed to bits.”

Shishkin was pulled out of his seasonal bow at the Betfair Tingle Creek by trainer Nicky Henderson and saw his price move slightly from 6-4 to 7-4 as a result.

Greaneteen is the big mover after winning the Tingle Creek at 12-1 under a superb ride from Bryony Frost.

One horse to sneak his way into (outside) contention is 40-1 Editeur Du Gite. The Gary Moore-trained seven-year-old has won his last two races both around Cheltenham and is up to a mark of 153.

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