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BEN’S JUKEBOX HIT FOR HARRY: Nick Townsend talks Gold Cup hopes to King George winner Ben Jones

Stride into Kempton Park on a quiet Monday of relatively modest racing fare, and you can’t help but contrast the atmosphere with the tumult here just over five weeks earlier when the roar of over 17,000 throats accompanied the final few yards of the King George Chase on Boxing Day. It was a spectacle which will be seared into the memory for years.
Mambonumberfive ridden by Ben Jones (left)

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Nick Townsend talks Gold Cup hopes to King George winner Ben Jones...

Stride into Kempton Park on a quiet Monday of relatively modest racing fare, and you can’t help but contrast the atmosphere with the tumult here just over five weeks earlier when the roar of over 17,000 throats accompanied the final few yards of the King George Chase on Boxing Day. It was a spectacle which will be seared into the memory for years.
Just consider, how many jump races, let alone a Grade 1, can conjure a finish in which the first four could be covered by a blanket: The Jukebox Man a nose in fron...

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