THE second day of the Christmas Festival is set to play host to perhaps the most exciting and intriguing chaser in the country with Willie Mullins indicating that Chacun Pour Soi will begin his season in the Grade 1 Paddy’s Rewards Club Chase.

In just two starts over fences last season Chacun Pour Soi reached a rating of 167 which is an accurate illustration of the prodigious potential that this seven-year-old has shown. The fact that he will be lining up on Friday without the benefit of a previous run this season isn’t of any great concern as he returned from three years off to run out a 31-length winner of a beginners’ chase at Naas in March.