King George VI Chase Horse Racing Betting

King George VI Chase horse racing betting offers not just the more battle weary internet punter a viable chance to follow their picks on the day of the race, but every other Thomas, Richard and Harry with a passing interest in choosing a horse racing betting winner. Not quite the quintessential office/factor sweepstake appeal of say The Grand National, yet nevertheless a National Hunt event that captures more than just the traditional horse racing betting fans' imagination.

The King George VI Chase is where it's at if you like your National Hunt racing served up on a plate with a degree of style; and provides the perfect antidote to an over-indulged festive season. Stopping short of attempting to make some tenuous and tedious link between 'going cold turkey' and King George VI Chase Horse Racing Betting, as you might have guessed this prime-time Grade 1 National Hunt chase occurs just after Christmas. Boxing Day itself as it happens, December 26^th, so securing a captive horse racing betting audience still gathered around extended family and friends and desperately looking for something marginally more exciting and action-packed than yet another James Bond movie or CGI-based children's film.

Online Horse Racing Bookmakers Keen To Offer Multitude Of King George VI Chase Horse Racing Betting Sportsbooks

The leading online horse racing betting bookmakers are nearly falling over themselves to proffer King George VI Chase horse racing betting fans new and old the very best (and up to the minute, latest) betting odds and prices on all the runners; who are busy being put through their paces by their trainers right up till the bitter end. Yes, of course there's the usual outright win and each-way betting odds to tempt the interactive sports betting punter, however delve a little deeper and there's a whole new, equally exciting world of King George VI Chase horse racing betting markets just waiting to be discovered. And you don't have to wander through a wardrobe full of moth-balled clothes to enter this very real world.

For example you can opt for a King George VI Chase horse racing betting place bet, whereby you list which horses you think will finish in the top four or five. In a specific race order. And then there's lay betting, a favourite with the eternal pessimists out there as the horse racing bettor errs on more than a side of caution; more the whole square root by staking a wager on a horse losing. Or at least definitely not winning. This type of bet comes into its own in the betting exchange arena, where essentially you're betting against someone else's prediction. The mirror image negative bet if you like. Seriously though, there's a host of King George VI Chase horse racing betting avenues to explore, and don't forget that for absolute beginners to this whole internet sports betting lark there's the added incentive of online bookmaker free bets to get you started/in the mood.

History States That King George VI Chase Shares National Hunt Pride Of Place With Cheltenham Gold Cup And Grand National

With eighteen challenging fences of assorted size and density to negotiate around the Kempton Park track, the King George VI Chase covers some three miles of the Surrey-based course, and invites jump-primed horses of four years of age and older to contest it annually. Named – as you might suspect – after the then newly crowned monarch, King George VI, the self-titled Chase was first played out in February 1937, and due to the break-out of World War II, was only only run twice before taking forced time out. In fact, according to our historical-savvy friends in cobwebby places, Kempton Park was effectively closed for (horse racing) business during the Second World War and used as a prisoner-of-war camp.

After a gap of eight years, the racecourse was re-opened, and as of 1947 a new date for the annual running of the King George VI Chase was set, from which it's never swayed since, that officially being Boxing Day. Whilst the couple of pre-war Chases were duked out between just four horses, after the imposed cessation of horse racing hostilities its popularity positively ballooned, culminating in the King George VI Chase being televised for the first time in 1949 in account of its soaring popularity.

Desert Orchid Most Successful King George VI Chase Horse Racing Betting Mount

Nowadays the King George VI Chase is widely-recognized amongst the horse racing betting fans, pundits, jockeys, trainers, yards and owners as being one of the most prestigious National Hunt chases in England, second only to the Cheltenham Gold Cup and possibly The Grand National. Although the later falls into the category of being a winner with the general public at large, leading with hearts rather than the hard fact-ridden heads of horse racing betting fans and the industry at large. At the same time the King George VI Chase is also seen as a potential dress rehearsal ahead of the forthcoming Gold Cup and Grand National, with horses showing form in this race often been submitted for either of the other two selection boxes.

Glancing at the history of past King George VI Chase winners, and the company kept is nothing but horse racing royalty by and large. The legend that is Desert Orchid is without hesitation the most successful of any horse to participate in the King George. Totalling four wins (1986, 1988, 1989 and 1990), Dessie's jockey in his last two King George victories, Richard Dunwoody holds the record for leading jockey in the competition. Aside from being in the saddle when the public's favourite romped to back-to-back victories in 1989 and 1990, Dunwoody was One Man's mount in both 1995 and 1996. Paul Nicholls shares the King George VI Chase's most successful trainer accolade with Fulke Walwyn and Francois Doumen with five wins to his name, including See More Business (1997, 1999) and the rock solid, almost insurmountable Desert Orchid of the noughties, Kauto Star; who's claimed King George VI Chase horse racing betting honours in the three successive years of 2006, 2007 and 2008.