Value Scope: Each way horse racing tips from Steve Jones for Saturday on ITV
You are spoilt for choice as our man makes five recommendations from the TV cards at Sandown and Musselburgh with Dartmoor Pirate his main pick
You are spoilt for choice as our man makes five recommendations from the TV cards at Sandown and Musselburgh with Dartmoor Pirate his main pickSteve Jones has five tips for Saturday on ITVBy
Steve Jones
There’s treasure buried in the Virgin Bet Heroes Hurdle.
This 2m7f Sandown handicap is going to be a proper test of stamina on heavy ground and that will suit DARTMOOR PIRATE (3.07).
He had some good form up to 2m4f last season and didn’t seem to take to fences on his comeback run in December.
The return to hurdling and step up to 3m saw him back in the groove when runner-up at Wincanton on Boxing Day.
This race looks ideal for Anthony Honeyball’s six-year-old. Have 2pts each-way at 8-1. Most bookies are paying out on four places.
OLD TIME CHASER (1.25) should also appreciate the testing conditions.
He is bred to like heavy ground and he just hasn’t been quick enough for races on faster surfaces around sharper tracks.
There’s every chance he is well handicapped now he gets the chance to use his obvious stamina. Have 1pt each-way at 9-1.
GELINO BELLO (3.42) is worth chancing in a open-looking Virgin Bet Masters Handicap Chase.
He looked a cracking prospect when winning four races on the bounce in 2022, including the Grade 1 Sefton Novices’ Hurdle at Aintree’s Grand National Meeting.
His Boxing Day comeback over hurdles at Wincanton was his first start for nearly two years and he now returns to fences with the chance to make up for lost time. Have 1pt each-way at 8-1.
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WELSH CHARGER (2.17) has won half of his ten hurdles starts yet has been relatively ignored in the betting for the Scottish County Hurdle at Musselburgh’s Cheltenham Trials Day.
He was successful at this meeting 12 months ago and he made a winning return on decent ground at Wetherby in November.
The way he backed out of it from the second-last hurdle in a 2m4f contest at Newbury over Christmas suggests he is well worth another shot at this shorter distance. Have 1pt each-way at 14-1. Sky Bet is paying out on five places.
JOHNNY RINGO (1.42) should appreciate the drying conditions at the Scottish track.
His two hurdles starts have both come at Musselburgh and he won nicely over this distance on New Year’s Day.
This is a fair step up in grade but the market is dominated by horses with hard-to-evaluate French form. Have 1pt each-way at 16-1.
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