Frodon finds plenty to land Pendil for Paul Nicholls

Paul Nicholls celebrated his ninth victory in the BetBright Best For Festival Betting Pendil Novices' Chase after Frodon made it six wins from eight starts over fences at Kempton.Despite giving weight away to his rivals, the five-year-old continued his remarkable season over the larger obstacles when following up his odds-on win at Musselburgh in the Grade Two affair.Prominent throughout the two-and-a-half-mile contest the 8-11 favourite, having seen off the attentions of Charmix, was then faced with a home-straight battle with Gold Present.Although little to choose between the pair over the third-last, the odds-on favourite gradually pulled away over the remaining two fences before claiming victory by two lengths.Nicholls said: "He just loves it and is full of enthusiasm. He has been a great horse and this has been a good race for us. We definitely won't put him away for sure."I hoped it was not too quick after Musselburgh, but he just loves it. He is not very big, but he is genuine."I'm not convinced he wants to run at Cheltenham with 20 runners around him. We might try and place him in these type of races and dodge Cheltenham. He could go to Aintree or Ayr."There is a race at Fairyhouse which is a Grade One worth a lot of money and we might stick him in that. There is no pressure to go to Cheltenham at all."