JP McManus aims to land elusive Champion Chase crown with Majborough

Once again, much of Wednesday’s BetMGM Queen Mother Champion Chase revolves around JP McManus’s attempt to finally land an elusive first success in the two-mile crown. Overwhelmingly successful in so many of the big festival prizes, the biggest and most successful owner in the sport’s history continues to find the Champion Chase frustratingly elusive. It hardly keeps the billionaire businessman awake at night, although underestimating McManus’s competitive edge is a presumptive exercise. Along with Kempton’s King George VI Chase it’s just about the only major National Hunt prize he hasn’t won. It’s hard to credit that doesn’t niggle the Irishman a...