Kempton 26-27 Dec Winter Festival
It’s fun to get presents and eat your own weight in turkey but any racing fan knows that Christmas is just a prelude to the big race at Kempton the next day, the King George VI Chase. The midwinter championship of steeplechasing, it does a better job of star-making than the Cheltenham Gold Cup; Desert Orchid and Kauto Star won it nine times between them.
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