YOU can make a case for plenty in the Bet365 Handicap Chase at Ascot today.

You can easily understand why Vincenzo has been put in as favourite. Sam Thomas’ horse was progressive last season, his first season over fences, and he ran a big race on his debut this term to finish second in the Paddy Power Gold Cup at Cheltenham behind Panic Attack, who followed up by winning the Coral Gold Cup next time off a 4lb higher mark. She is now rated 13lb higher than she was then, and she appeared to run right up to her mark when she ran out an impressive winner of a listed mares’ chase at Newbury on Wednesday.