Timeform Features 
/ Jamie Lynch / 19 February 2011 / Leave a Comment 
Riverside Theatre clears the last to win the Betfair Ascot Chase
"Riverside Theatre is now [9.0] for the Ryanair Chase at Cheltenham."
Nicky Henderson's King George runner-up Riverside Theatre went one better in impressive fashion in the Grade 1 Betfair Ascot Chase on Saturday...
A small-but-select field lined up for the Betfair Ascot Chase, which was the first real test for the King George form with Riverside Theatre arriving on the back of his excellent second to stable-companion Long Run at Kempton, but unfortunately much of the interest in the race was taken away when second-favourite Pride of Dulcote came down at the eighth and suffered a fatal injury.
That made the task all the easier for the classy Riverside Theatre, who duly stretched clear in the home straight, with ten lengths to spare over Gauvain at the line, and a further eleven lengths back to Deep Purple in third.
Riverside Theatre underlined his improvement from Kempton, even if he didn't have to reproduce it all to beat what he had to at Ascot, and he's now [9.0] for the Ryanair Chase at Cheltenham, for which Paul Nicholls' Poquelin remains favourite.
Nicky Henderson's King George runner-up Riverside Theatre went one better in impressive fashion in the Grade 1 Betfair Ascot Chase on Saturday......
Timeform look ahead to next week's racing, which starts with a strong card at Naas on Sunday and culminates with Racing Post Chase day at Kempton......
The National Hunt season has had more than a stop-start feel to it thus far, with all the abandonments of December rolling into January and then the unfortunate events at Newbury last weekend. Here's hoping that the rearranged meeting at the Berkshire track on Friday and Ascot's big card on Saturday signal the return of the show to the road....
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