Pink Sands Sandown pick

Three-yearold tipped to live up to promise in handicap

PINK SANDS

looks one of the better bets on the card at Sandown, where she runs in the Weybridge Handicap.

The lightly-raced William Haggastrained three-year-old made her return from an absence of more than 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.

Newmarket-based Yorkshireman Haggas could bag another with STAR

OF WINS in the Cobham Handicap. Unraced at two, he finished middivision 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.

● Today’s meeting at Hamilton has been abandoned due to areas of false ground.

An inspection was called for 2pm yesterday after 54 millimetres of rain in the space of 48 hours left the course unraceable.