Allmankind reigns in Kingmaker contest
Skelton runner comes home clear at Warwick.
Allmankind survived a scare at the penultimate obstacle to remain unbeaten over fences in the Agetur UK Kingmaker Novices’ Chase at Warwick. Dan Skelton’s five-year-old adopted his usual front-running tactics, but Harry Skelton did not seem to be going out of his comfort zone in front. A feature of his first two victories this season, including at Grade One level last time out, has been his accurate jumping but this time around there were a couple of scruffy leaps. In testing ground, he was perhaps not quite as exuberant at his fences, but was still able to get away from the obstacles quicker than his rivals. Cheddleton soon dropped away, but Sky Pirate was still in contention heading to the last fence in the back straight. Allmankind (4-7 favourite) met that fence spot on and then got away quickly, but he still had to survive a blunder at the second last before victory was sealed.Sky Pirate stuck to his task, but Allmankind galloped all the way to the line, coming home 17 lengths clear.
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