Pink’s the perfect pick for Sandown
PINK Sands looks one of the better bets on the card at Sandown today, where she runs in the Weybridge Handicap.
The lightly-raced William Haggastrained three-year-old made her return from an absence of over a year when third at Yarmouth last month, in what might well turn out to have been a useful novice contest.
The No Nay Never filly broke well alongside eventual winner Silver Machine and was just caught for second close home by stablemate Praised, who finished with a rare rattle from the rear.
The first three are of definite promise and Pink Sands is perfectly entitled to have needed it, having been off since her maiden win at Ripon in June last year, where she had subsequent Lowther winner Living In The Past back in third.
The sixth furlong at the seaside track might even have stretched her a bit, too, so the return to the minimum trip aligned to the nature of the Sandown sprint track might prove ideal.
Newmarket-based Yorkshireman Haggas could bag another with Star Of Wins in the Cobham Handicap.
Unraced at two, he finished mid-division first time up at Newmarket and came forward from that to just fail at Bath, where he might have bumped into one in the shape of Sir Mark Prescott’s A La Voile, who has won again since.
Stepped up a quarter of a mile at Windsor, the Haggas runner duly won with a bit to spare and he should have more to give sent handicapping for the first time off a mark of 82.
Politics is a winner waiting to happen and can get off the mark in the British Stallion Studs EBF Maiden Stakes. Andrew Balding’s juvenile ran a race full of promise first time up at Pontefract, looking like the experience would do him the world of good.
The Muhaarar colt found smart-looking winner Regional had flown well over a furlong out, and while he was never going to be able to bridge the gap, he came home in the manner of a horse that has ability. Finally, a stiff mile could work the oracle for Crimewave in the Kingston Handicap.