Horse Racing Tips: 14/1 fancy among PP Trader’s best bets for Saturday’s ITV Racing

PP Trader Joe Logue has four fancies for the tellybox action at Sandown & Wolverhampton.

By / Horse Racing Tips / 2 months ago

Saturday’s Racing Tips

Sandown 13:50 – Taras Halls (each-way)
Sandown 14:25 – Making Headway
Wolverhampton 14:40 – Doctor Khan Junior
Sandown 15:35 – Golden Son

*All prices are bang up to date with our snazzy widgets, while odds in copy are accurate at time of publishing but subject to change.

Sandown 13:50 – Taras Halls (each/way)

It’s always a tough race to pick the winner and always a good race to look back at next year in terms of form. It’s worth taking an each-way swing at bigger prices, getting them placed and hoping they do enough to win.

One that’s flying under the radar a bit is TARAS HALLS. He was second in a bumper to Roger Pol and was thrown straight in the deep end into the Grade 2 bumper at Aintree last season. Connections obviously thought a lot of the horse and has had his three complete runs over hurdles after falling on hurdling debut. The second run was more just to get him a good experience before a good seven lengths second to Handstands, who subsequently won the Sydney Banks, and a second to Champagne Twist at Doncaster last time out.

The finishing speed was 107 per cent and Champagne Twist essentially made all while Taras Halls was towards the rear and finished with a rattle. There’s a huge price difference between them here and Taras Halls ran a lot better than the bare result there and should be seen to better effect here with a big field and strong pace to aim at.

Sandown 14:25 – Making Headway

It doesn’t look the strongest ever renewal of the Imperial Cup and there’s plenty in the field I ruled out pretty quickly.

MAKING HEADWAY catches my eye and it’s a horse Josh Greenall & Oliver Guerriero earmarked fairly early on that could be a good one. They said in a stable tour that he’s needed plenty of time to grow into himself but his form is still very solid as he was second in the Grade 2 Newton at Haydock, fourth in the Grade 1 Formby and then came out and won his novice hurdle at Newbury.

The stable are very good judges and if they’re right about him needing time and that now he’s only coming into himself then he could go well here off a mark of 129.

Wolverhampton 14:40 – Doctor Khan Junior

The favourite, Shouldhavebeenaring, is the obvious one they all have to beat as he’s rated well clear of the field, Nine Tenths is getting 5lbs from the field and off a rating of 100 she surely can go close, but my tentative selection is DOCTOR KHAN JUNIOR.

He’s interesting and has risen through the ranks in handicaps from a rating of 73 towards the end of the summer to a mark of 99. The stable’s in great form and while I don’t know much about the trainer Geoff Oldroy he seems to know what he has.

Sandown 15:35 – Golden Son

GOLDEN SON is a bit of a cliff horse for me. He used to wear a tongue tie in France and made his first two starts in UK without one. He was second to Iroko with Kilbeg King in third at Warwick on his debut for Paul Nicholls, which was strong form, and I liked him at Aintree when the ground was horrible and there was only one finisher that day.

My selection was pulled up again the next time when he was a huge drifter but did the job last time out with cheekpieces added. The form got a boost with Heltenham winning the Greatwood last weekend and if it’s not coming too quickly for him he’s the one they all have to beat.

Saturday’s Racing Tips

Sandown 13:50 – Taras Halls (each-way)
Sandown 14:25 – Making Headway
Wolverhampton 14:40 – Doctor Khan Junior
Sandown 15:35 – Golden Son

*All prices are bang up to date with our snazzy widgets, while odds in copy are accurate at time of publishing but subject to change.

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