Saturday Newbury top racing tip: Shanty Alley marked for return to form
Tipstrr's horse racing expert Steve Jones has been busy studying another busy Saturday racecard, and and has dropped on a nicely handicapped proven stayer as his best value bet of the day.
Now that Shanty Alley is back in form, he appears to be very well handicapped, so it shouldn't be long before he takes advantage of his current mark of 125, which is seven pounds below the mark he was racing off just two completed starts ago.
14:25 (Newbury) Shanty Alley
The only one to beat him at Wincanton was another highly-progressive staying handicapper, Time To Get Up, who promptly followed up by winning the Listed Midlands Grand National at Uttoxeter on his next run.
On his next run the following month, he finished third of nine in a higher-graded Class 2 handicap over 3 miles at Uttoxeter, and that was off an even higher mark of 132 (seven pounds higher than today).
The only one to beat him at Wetherby, Burrows Diamond, has since finished runner-up off seven pounds higher and the front pair pulled a long way clear of the rest.
Of the others, Grumpy Charley might go well back at his last winning track, where he clinched a Class 3 handicap by more than three lengths from Fern Hill, who won another Class 3 equally easily just last month.