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THERE is some cracking racing and prizes under both codes up for grabs this afternoon with the undoubted highlight being the match up between Shishkin and Energumene in the Grade One Clarence House Chase (Ascot, 3.00).

Nicky Henderson left plenty to work on last year’s Arkle winner when he won readily at Kempton Park, and the huge pivotal factor here will be how right, or indeed wrong, Paul Townend gets the fractions aboard the Willie Mullins’s trained entry in this exciting race for all national hunt fans.

And that may not be the be all and end all of the story as Ascot specialist and recent Peterborough Chase winner, First Flow, is also very much in the mix.