David Ord has the best bets for Saturday with the Nap in action at Doncaster.
A well-bred daughter of Siyouni, LET LIFE HAPPEN appeals as the sort to take a big step forward at four and she can begin the process by making a winning handicap debut from a mark of 84.
Unraced at two, she progressed with racing last season and signed off with a win in a Kempton maiden that is working out well. In very good hands, she makes plenty of appeal.
Dan Skelton can make a winning start to the season finale at Sandown courtesy of BE AWARE.
He’s only had three runs to date, winning on debut at Newton Abbot and running well under a penalty at Lingfield and Kempton since. He was stepped up to two miles five at the latter track on his most recent start and went strongly through the race. Returning to a strongly-run race over the minimum trip could really suit and an opening mark of 124 looks workable.
He’s been a work in progress and rough around the edges but VAN BAER can open his account in this.
Proven in testing ground, the well-bred son of No Nay Never still showed signs of greenness on his reappearance and handicap debut at Kempton, diving left out of the stalls and hanging when first off the bridle. He was only beaten a length-and-a-half, is down by a pound and capable of better.
He won this race last season on his second start of the term and EY UP ITS JAZZ can repeat the feat on Saturday.
The five-year-old was strong in the market on his return at Thirsk but shaped as if needing the run, looking a big danger approaching the final furlong only to tire late. That will have put him spot on for this on ground he revels in.
Clearly he hasn’t been straightforward but first-time-out was when to catch CLAN CHIEFTAIN last season and he’s taken to make a winning return.
It’s interesting his powerful connections have opted to go around again as a four-year-old and he was gelded and had a second wind op over the winter. He’s now down to a handicap mark of 82 which is very lenient if he’s anywhere near the level he showed when winning at Chepstow on his reappearance last term and he’s worth chancing.
He’s been shaping of late as if ready for a return to five furlongs and PIPER’S FORT gets just that on Saturday evening.
Hollie Doyle’s mount has shown plenty of speed in blinkers over six at Lingfield and Chelmsofrd the last twice and is only a pound higher than when second to Gogo Yubari at the former track. It usually pays to sit handy over this trip at Dunstall Park and he should do just that from stall one.
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