SET IN STONE

Veteran out to overturn Jonbon at Ascot

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EDWARDSTONE (3.35) can keep on rolling at the age of 12 and capture the Grade One Betfair Ascot Chase at the royal course.

It is almost four years since Alan King’s campaigner extended a sequence of wins in the 2022 Arkle at the Cheltenham Festival.

And while his old rival Jonbon will be hard to beat, the 2m5f distance brings Edwardstone into it at odds of 10-1.

My selection kept on over a furlong shorter to take a silver medal behind Djelo - beaten only eight lengths in the King George VI Chase subsequently in the second tier Peterborough Chase at Huntingdon.