Saturday Doncaster racing tips: Trends suggest Jimi Hendrix and Wanees each-way in the Lincoln
- Andrew of Fiosrach
- 31 March 2023
The trends analysis used by racing expert Andrew of Fiosrach has been lucrative recently, and he now aims it at Saturday's Lincoln Handicap, the traditional Flat season curtain raiser at Doncaster.
Hopefully you managed to find a bookmaker offering three places on Flower of Scotland, who came third at Kelso last weekend and had been available at 12/1 at the time of writing. The handy hurdler was heavily backed and ended up with a starting price of just 5/1, but did reach as low as 4/1.
Using the trends above the field is narrowed down to just four horses:
Al Mubhir, Croupier, Jimi Hendrix and Wanees.
I employed some additional trends and was still unable to narrow the choices down, so I studied form and decided I cannot have
Al Mubhir at his price of 4/1 on the basis of form. Moreover, he has just had a wind operation, which could benefit him, but we do not know how the horse will react. I therefore rule
Al Mubhir out as 4/1 is a ludicrously short price for a horse which has only won a single race previously.
Croupier is promising and is likely to improve through the season, but he has no form on soft ground and looking at his breeding his sire is more suited to good or faster going. So I have also ruled out
Croupier, but if he does handle the going then I expect him to go close.
This leaves
Jimi Hendrix and
Wanees and I suggest backing both each way with bookmakers offering additional places. Both will handle the going and both ran well in the big 30-runner field that contested the Britannia Handicap at Royal Ascot last June, finishing third and sixth respectively
I expect both to be mid-division before making a move entering the final furlong and hopefully will continue the good run of the selections in these trends analysis articles.
