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- Updated: January 4, 2017
Paul Nicholls is considering stepping Dodging Bullets up to the top table for the first time this season in the Clarence House Chase at Ascot on January 21.
The Ditcheat handler has given the former champion chaser an entry in the Grade One prize, which he won in 2015, as the nine-year-old bids for a first victory of the campaign.
Dodging Bullets failed to build upon an encouraging return in the Haldon Gold Cup at Exeter when he was pulled up in a Grade Two at Ascot in November.
But he shaped with more promise on his most recent start, when fourth in last month’s Peterborough Chase at Huntingdon.
Nicholls said: “Dodging Bullets has been given an entry in the Clarence House where he might go, but it is not definite.
“He is one of those horses in …
