Check out the Timeform report on Jonbon's defeat of Energumene in Saturday's BetMGM Clarence House Chase at Ascot.
The Clarence House was able to be run at Ascot for the first time since Shishkin defeated Energumene in an epic renewal in 2022 and it featured another keenly anticipated clash between the stables of Henderson and Mullins, with Energumene this time facing Jonbon, the pair incidentally the beaten favourites in the two runnings staged at Cheltenham in the last two seasons.
The race wasn't quite the epic that 2022 turned out to be, but Jonbon produced a performance at least as good as he ever has in seeing off the challenge of his older rival in decisive fashion, hard to see why the tables should be turned at Cheltenham, the winner's performance as good as any apart from Shishkin - and Energumene - in 2022 since this race became a Grade 1 in 2008; the pace was sound, the leader asked to up the tempo from the eighth then really going for home after 3 out.
