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'It’s deserving of top billing' - Willie Mullins and Nicky Henderson camps ready for another epic Clarence House

Insight from both teams with big guns Energumene and Jonbon set to clash at Ascot on Saturday

Engergume (left) and Jonbon are set to meet for the first time at Ascot on Saturday
Engergume (left) and Jonbon are set to meet for the first time at Ascot on Saturday

Connections of Energumene are excited at the prospect of a pre-Cheltenham showdown with Jonbon at Ascot on Saturday and believe he has retained all his enthusiasm for the fight.

Three years after Shishkin edged him out in a pulsating Clarence House Chase the dual Champion Chase hero returns to Ascot for the BetMGM-sponsored Grade 1 to take on another Seven Barrows ace in Jonbon, whose trainer Nicky Henderson predicts a pulsating front-running duel in what will be the first clash of these heavyweights of the two-mile division.

Despite contesting the race three times between them the pair have never met as Energumene missed the entirety of last season due to injury, returning from 593 days off the track last month when landing the Hilly Way at Cork by ten lengths.

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