The Jump Zone: Featuring The Racehour, Donn McClean & Tanya Stevenson
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Horse Racing Tips & Angles
- Tanya Stevenson's Tip for the 1.50 at Sandown - Goonhilly
- Tanya Stevenson's Tip for the 2.25 at Sandown - The Real Whacker
- Donn McClean's Angles for the bet365 Gold Cup Handicap Chase - 3.35 Sandown
- Donn McClean's Angle for the bet365 Handicap Hurdle - 5.20 Sandown
- Racehour Tips for Sandown from Cian Kirby
Welcome to the The Jump Zone which features tips and analysis from Racehour regulars Donn McClean, Cian Kirby & Tanya Stevenson for all the upcoming National Hunt action.
As always, you’ll find the most up-to-date odds with horse racing betting sites, but don’t sleep on our tipster’s predictions as those odds could soon be snapped up by the betting public. Odds stated are correct at the time of publishing.
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Tanya Stevenson's Tip for the 1.50 at Sandown - Goonhilly (each-way)
Goonhilly will probably be labelled a cliff horse for me but I still feel there is some value to squeeze out in the each-way market, as with 20 runners a few companies are sure to offer five each-way places.
He represents Dan Skelton who is still throwing everything at trying to win the Trainers Championship and this race is worth a huge £50k.
Now Goonhilly I feel has plenty of untapped talent but on a couple of occasions he hasn’t wanted to unlock it as after nine runs he is still a maiden.
He isn’t the easiest of conveyance, the four seconds are indication enough, yet he knows Sandown well having finished sixth in the Imperial Cup.
He has a feather weight which can be exploited. Last time out I sense he ran up against something special in Denemethy. Charlie Todd is on board who was brilliant on Gwennie May Boy at Aintree.
Goonhilly will need plenty of encouragement early then if he gets into a competitive position, Charlie will have to wait as long as possible to produce the horse.
Tanya Stevenson's Tip for the 1.50 at Sandown - Goonhilly (each-way)
Tanya Stevenson's Tip for the 2.25 at Sandown - The Real Whacker
I’ve already gone through the Bet365 Gold Cup in my ante-post column a week or so ago and hopefully, you have got the value on Amirite and Kinondo Kwetu, I am going to mix them up in small forecasts and tricasts with Kittys Light and watch on.
Before that though courtesy of the Trainers Championship there are some intriguing support races including the Oaksey Chase.
Many will be a flutter on whether to pick Nicholls on Mullins but I'm going to sidestep the pair with The Real Whacker, who will love the opportunity to bowl along out front.
Sam Twiston-Davies will as usual ride him with massive confidence and huge positivity and his three-mile-plus ability should see him wind up the pace skipping over the railway fences as they are making their way home.
Ok he pulled up in the Gold Cup but he was 40/1 for that, I prefer to take heart in his gallant run in the Cotswold Chase behind Capodanno.
The better ground will suit and this opposition isn’t as formidable as what he could have encountered.
Tanya Stevenson's Tip for the 2.25 at Sandown - The Real Whacker
Donn McClean's Angles
bet365 Gold Cup Handicap Chase - 3.35 Sandown
Amirite remains a potentially well-handicapped horse, and he could go well in the Bet365 Gold Cup on Saturday.
Henry de Bromhead’s horse was competing in graded races last season as a novice, and he was sent off as favourite for the Irish Grand National last year.
He ran well for a long way in a handicap chase at Cheltenham’s October meeting and, on his next run, he kept on well to take fifth place in the Paddy Power Chase at Leopardstown at Christmas.
He hasn’t run since then, but the combination of this marathon trip and better ground could be a positive for him.
He remains unexposed as a staying chaser, his trainer’s horses are in great form these days, and he will have Rachael Blackmore for company. And he could be well handicapped on a mark of 142.
bet365 Handicap Hurdle - 5.20 Sandown
The concluding race at Sandown, the last race of the 2023/24 British National Hunt season, can often confound market expectations.
The last 10 renewals have yielded winners sent off at 14/1, 16/1 and 22/1, and there has only been on winning favourite and one winning joint favourite in that time.
Arqoob could be below the radar. Lucy Wadham’s horse is proving of late that this intermediate trip is the trip for him, and he has been good in his last two runs over the trip, better than the bare form of those runs suggest.
He goes well at the track, he has won there twice, and the fitting of cheekpieces for the first time could elicit the requisite improvement. It’s a good each-way race and he is a good each-way price.
Cian Kirby's Racehour Sandown Selections
bet365 Gold Cup Handicap Chase 3.35 Sandown - Threeunderthrufive (each-way) @ 8/1
Although it looks as though Willie Mullins has secured his first-ever UK trainers title, both Dan Skelton and Paul Nicholls are in with a fighting chance as they send strong teams to Sandown on Saturday for the finale.
Nicholls himself has won the bet365 Gold Cup Handicap Chase four times already as he saddles a trio of runners for Sandowns feature race.
Threeunderthrufive has been in top form this season and he is the pick of the bunch.
A runner-up finish in the Badger Beer chase at Wincanton was followed up by another second-place finish at Cheltenham, where the winner Broadway Boy has gone on to frank the form on multiple occasions.
The nine-year-old arrives on the back of a gritty win at Ascot and he has all the right credentials to make it a fifth win in the race for team Ditcheat.
bet365 Handicap Hurdle 5.20 Sandown - Pic Roc (each-way) @ 7/1
A total of 18 horses go to post for this handicap hurdle and it looks as competitive as ever with betting sites pricing it up as 6/1 the field.
The Ben Pauling camp have been flying this season and they can round off a year to remember with Pic Roc in the season finale.
Pic Roc has been in sublime form since the turn of the year and his win at Ascot over Inthewaterside was franked when the runner-up went on to place in a handicap hurdle at Aintree's Grand National meeting.
This progressive gelding arrives on the back of second place finish over course and distance and he ticks all the boxes to go one better this time around for the Ben Pauling team.
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