Sayle is value

SET sayle for profits at Wolverhampton today with WILLIAM SAYLE (nap, 2.50).

The son of Bahamian Bounty was only eighth of 11 at Kempton on his debut, but ran way better than his placing might suggest.

Starting second favourite, albeit drifting from 3-1 to 4s, William Sayle, who is trained by John Gosden, (pictured), was hampered at the start and was kept to the wide outside, not ideal at the Sunbury track.

However, he made up significant ground to sit behind the leaders before the field turned into the straight and appeared to have every chance of taking a hand in the finish before those exertions began to tell.

In the end he wasn’t beaten all that far, just three lengths off shock winner, Broad Appeal, who was sent off at 25-1.

He should put that experience to good use this afternoon with Richard Hughes’ Golden Wolf and Michael Bell’s Armagnac the main dangers.

At Southwell, the concluding bumper can go the way of the Tom George-trained TRUCKERS LODGE (nb, 5.10). He dead-heated with Empire Burlesque in a point-to-point on his last start and the joint winner went on to land a bumper at Fairyhouse last time. On the same card, I like the look of FATTSOTA (treble, 3.10) in the novice hurdle.

David O’Meara’s charge was a little late in having his attention turned to the jumping game - at the age of eight and with 43 runs on the Flat behind him.

But he has done well with form figures of 212 in his three runs over timber and can make it two wins from four hurdles starts.