Sandown best bet: Crescent Lake primed for quick return to winning ways
Sandown
Sandown’s Sunday Series meeting concludes with a long-distance event that should be a competitive test for some of the best stayers around.
18:45 Sandown: Sky Bet Sunday Series Stayers' Handicap (1 mile 6 furlongs)
The bookies have Omniscient as the one to beat here, although mid-division finishes on his only two outings so far this term suggests that his early short price holds little appeal.
There are a few likely candidates bubbling just under the favourite between 6/1 and 7/1, with
Rhythmic Intent likely to feature prominently under Oisin Murphy after going close under a different rider at Yarmouth 24 days ago.
A refreshed
Blow Your Horn could well bounce back to the form he showed when landing an early-season three-timer, before one race too many within a short period saw him finish mid-division in the Northumberland Vase last time out seven weeks ago.
Most strongly fancied within the Tipstrr camp, however, is Gary Moore's
Crescent Lake
, who won on Chelmsford's all-weather track in April and has backed that up with two turf successes at Goodwood in May and June.
Planet Sport Bet: Bet £20+ cash on any runner in the race and if Crescent Lake finishes in the first 3 places, get a £5 Free Bet!
Both of those victories were over this 14-furlong trip, and were on good-to-soft and good-to-firm, so he shouldn't be fazed by any change in the ground conditions, despite his mark edging up another pound.
He will again be piloted by regular jockey Tom Queally, an underrated rider who has landed 28 winners (plus 38 places) from his 176 outings this season, and joins trainer Moore (50 winners from 244 runners) in being well ahead of the bookies in terms of profit earned this season (34 and 23 units respectively)
Suggested bet:
Crescent Lake each-way in the 18:45 at Sandown
