Konfusion is primed for tilt at Rowland Meyrick in Wetherby's Boxing Day classic

The seven-year-old chestnut gelding, trained at High Eldwick by the bang in-form training partnership of Joel Parkinson and Sue Smith, looks set to go off favourite for the feature race of the two-day Christmas meeting at the West Yorkshire track (1.35).

Konfusion was an impressive winner of the BetMGM Rehearsal Handicap Chase at Newcastle at the back end of last month – taking his record for the year to four wins, a second and a third.

His only blemish was when he unseated jockey Danny McMenamin at Haydock seven days earlier, but he quickly repaid the faith of his trainers by winning at Gosforth Park.

And Parkinson is confident of another big run today by the youngest horse in the three-mile chase.

He told The Yorkshire Post: “We are looking forward to running him.

"He came out of his race very well. He’s a solid jumper, he’s got Callum [Bewley] back on him who won on him at Newcastle and he has ended up with bottom weight as well. We are hoping for a good run.”

Konfusion will face four rivals for the £28,000 prize, including David Killahena and Graeme McPherson’s Marble Sands and Knappers Hill from the Paul Nicholls stable.

The duo also run the hat-trick seeking Glen Road, the mount of Peter Kavanagh, in the William Hill Epic Boosts Daily Handicap Hurdle (2.10), where he comes up against Catterick trainer Phil Kirby’s equally in-form Be the Difference, who is chasing a four-timer under Conor Rabbitt, who takes three pounds off.

Parkinson said: “Glen Road is still improving, there are still hurdle races to be won with him.

“He will go chasing at some point but there is still a few hurdles to be had."

On the Kirby horse, he added: "Something has got to give and get beaten. But we are in a good place at the moment, when I mention horses at the minute, I am not too worried about the opposition as long as we get everything else right and we are happy with our horses, then we will go and have a go.”

With 25 wins this season, the pair are on course to comfortably surpass last season’s total of 27, with Grand Geste’s eye-catching win in the Betfred Tommy Whittle Handicap Chase at Haydock last Saturday the latest boost for the stable. Parkinson said: “We went there with a quiet confidence. We knew he’d improve upped in trip to three miles, we know he is going that way anyway.

"It is easy to pick them when they are at this end of the handicap. It gets a bit more complicated when the handicapper catches up with you!

"But at the minute everything is going well and the races are picking themselves, really.

"We haven’t put any in that we don’t think are going to run a big race so we are confident, everything is well and we are organised.

"We are really happy, the whole team is in good spirits at home and everything is going smoothly at the minute.”

The stable’s Cerendipity is another with a chance for the pair in the William Hill Keep Your Raceday Positive Handicap Chase (2.45), Kavanagh again rides, while Middleham’s Micky Hammond’s Toby Two Scoops is vying for favouritism in the concluding William Hill Daily Bet Boosts Handicap Hurdle (3.20).

As well as the three fancies at Wetherby and several others across the cards there, the West Yorkshire duo also send The Big Breac to the Pallinc Lincolnshire National Handicap Chase at Market Rasen (2.57) to ridden by McMenamin.

The stable won the race last year with O’Connell, who claimed the London National on December 6.

Cheltenham Festival-winning trainer Fiona Needham has Red Delta in the same race, the mount of three-pound claimer Jack Andrews. The horse finished second behind Nicky Henderson’s Fierce Warrior at Doncaster last month.