The Timeform and Sporting Life racing experts combine to provide their best bets for Saturday's racing.
ES PERFECTO – 4.40 Sandown (David Ord)
He's still unexposed over fences and ES PERFECTO can register a first win over the larger obstacles. He’s bringing some strong form to the table having been twice placed behind Ginny’s Destiny at Cheltenham this season and third to Blow Your Wad at Kempton over Christmas. He races from an unchanged mark off the back of that excellent run in the Timeform Novices' Handicap Chase and must be a big player.
GOLDEN PASSPORT – 8.30 Chelmsford (David Johnson)
I’ve been keeping an eye on GOLDEN PASSPORT since his promising stable debut back in December and with a view to a few different variables at play, I’m hopeful that this is the day he comes good. He’s been kept to 6f by current connections, despite his best form all having come at 7f/1m for Ed Walker and his last three starts have certainly suggested he’ll be suited by a return to this trip. His mark has been dropping all the while and this career-low allows him to sneak into this 0-68 for the first time, giving him a chance to express his relative class. There’s a lack of pace on here, and while he’s been held up of late, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if today is the day that connections opt to ride him a bit more positively.
GEORGI GIRL - 2.25 Sandown (Matt Brocklebank)
Philip Hobbs & Johnson White have their horses in fantastic form and GEORGI GIRL looks a little underestimated in the market for the Imperial Cup. She proved her wide-margin course and distance win to be no fluke when following up off 10lb higher at Kempton and she looks good value for that victory after apparently hitting the front sooner than ideal. Up another 5lb, this demands more but she's on a rapid upward curve and should be suited by this big field and likely strong gallop.
PARK ANNONCIADE – Ayr 3.08 (Billy Nash)
At the time of writing, it is still unclear as to whether Gowran will go ahead on Saturday and there isn’t anything jumping out at me on that card in any case, so I've decided to go a bit further afield for this week’s banker. Scotland, to be precise, where I think PARK ANNONCIADE has plenty in his favour in race four at Ayr. A C&D winner already this season, he wasn’t seen to best effect at Musselburgh last time when left poorly placed in a race that turned into a bit of a sprint and this represents a significant drop in grade. There should be plenty of pace on here, which will suit the selection as he is proven over further, and he looks a solid bet in race where almost everything else has questions to answer.
KOTMASK – 3.35 Sandown (Ben Linfoot)
Gary Moore in a novice handicap chase at Sandown, you say? He’s 10/33 at 30.3% in such races now after KOTMASK’s win here at the end of January and he can go in again in the Betfair Serial Winners Fund Novices’ Handicap Chase. Moore muddies the picture by running another in Invincible Nao, but Kotmask is progressing at a rate of knots and given he’s proven at the course, over the trip and in the (soft) ground he gets the nod.
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