See below our quickfire Sandown tips for the ITV racing on Tingle Creek Chase Day on Saturday, that also includes the rescheduled Fighting Fifth Hurdle and the return of star hurdler Constitution Hill.
Sandown Tips for ITV Racing On Saturday 9th December
It’s Tingle Creek Day at Sandown Park on Saturday and you can see Andy Newton’s quickfire 1-2-3 ITV racing tips for the five LIVE contests. Plus, by joining up with our page sponsors BetMGM, you can also claim £40 in horse racing free bets after staking your first £10.
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- 1:15: Fighting Fifth Hurdle (Grade 1) (GBB Race) Cl1 (4yo+) 2m ITV4: CONSTITUTION HILL
- 1:50: Betfair Henry VIII Novices’ Chase (Grade 1) (GBB Race) Cl1 (4yo+) 1m7½f ITV4: UNEXPECTED PARTY
- 2:25: Rachael Blackmore Serial Winners Fund Handicap Hurdle (GBB Race) Cl2 (3yo+ 0-150) 2m ITV4: SPIRIT D’AUNOU (e/w)
- 3:00: Betfair Tingle Creek Chase (Grade 1) (GBB Race) Cl1 (4yo+) 1m7½f ITV4: JONBON
- 3:35: Betfair Exchange London National Handicap Chase (GBB Race) Cl2 (5yo+ 0-150) 3m4½f ITV4: FONTAINE COLLONGES
Note: Odds are supplied from BetMGM and are subject to change
You can also see our ITV Aintree tips today here.
Sandown Horse Racing Tips: 1-2-3 Best Bets On Tingle Creek Day
Saturday’s Sandown Park fixture will figure eight races this year with the track now housing last week’s cancelled Fighting Fifth Hurdle and after all the ‘will he, won’t he run’ talk the good news is that Constitution Hill WILL run at the meeting.
Constitution Hill will face five others in the Fighting Fifth Hurdle that also include his stablemate Shishkin, who is back over hurdles as trainer Nicky Henderson scrambles around to try and get a run into him before the King George VI Chase on Boxing Day.
The best UK horse racing betting sites make Constitution Hill the red-hot favourite to win his second Fighting Fifth Hurdle on Saturday as he gets his Champion Hurdle defence season started. Next stop will be the Christmas Hurdle at Kempton on Boxing Day.
Jonbon The Warm Order In The Tingle Creek
Saturday’s card will also feature the main event – the Tingle Creek Chase – a race that is named after the 1970’s US-bred chestnut chaser that made the Esher track his own.
This year’s running is focused around another Nicky Henderson-trained hot-pot in Jonbon, who will be many people’s big Sandown racing tip to make it 7-from-8 over fences.
With eight races to cram in, it’s an earlier start than normal for this meeting at 11:35am, while the last contest – the London National (3:35pm) might require the jockeys to wear headlamps if there are any delays.
It’s all set for a cracking day and SportsLens’ Andy Newton, who will be there at the Esher track, gives his quickfire Sandown racing tips to look out for.
1:15: Fighting Fifth Hurdle (Grade 1) (GBB Race) Cl1 (4yo+) 2m ITV4
SportsLens (Andy Newton) 1-2-3 Sandown Racing Tips: No prizes for trying to be clever here. It will be one of the horse racing shocks of the season, if not the decade, if the current Champion Hurdle CONSTUTION HILL isn’t winning his second Fighting Fifth Hurdle.
Nicky Henderson’s horse is rated 175 and that’s a full 12lbs clear of the next best Shishkin, who you feel might need this race back anyway with the King George his main target.
Constitution Hill is 7-from-7 over hurdles and barring accidents he’ll be unbeaten in eight after this. It will then be all systems go to the Christmas Hurdle on Boxing Day – a race he won by 17-lengths last season – and then onto the Cheltenham Festival again, where he looks for this third success at the meeting.
Another former Festival winner Love Envoi will get a handy mares’ allowance and can take silver, with Jamie Snowden’s course winner You Wear It Well booked for bronze.
- CONSTITUTION HILL
- Love Envoi
- You Wear It Well
1:50: Betfair Henry VIII Novices’ Chase (Grade 1) (GBB Race) Cl1 (4yo+) 1m7½f ITV4:
SportsLens (Andy Newton) 1-2-3 Sandown Racing Tips: JPR One will be popular here after unseating Brendan Powell last time at Cheltenham with the race in the bag. However, the worry here (based on that last unseat) is the tricky fences at Sandown and especially the quick Railway obstacles, in what will be his first run at the Esher track too.
Course winners Colonel Harry, Iceo and Le Patron command respect with that proven experience but it’s interesting that the Dan Skelton yard drop UNEXPECTED PARTY back in trip. He ran well in the Paddy Power Gold Cup last time at Cheltenham over 2m4f, until getting tired in the final stages. Prior to that had beaten the useful Knappers Hill at Chepstow and with his prominent racing style, and the fact we know he stays a bit further than this, looks worth chancing on what is expected to be soft/heavy ground.
- UNEXPECTED PARTY
- JPR One
- Colonel Harry
2:25: Rachael Blackmore Serial Winners Fund Handicap Hurdle (GBB Race) Cl2 (3yo+ 0-150) 2m ITV4:
SportsLens (Andy Newton) 1-2-3 Sandown Racing Tips: The Gary Moore yard love having winners at Sandown and boast a decent 21% strike-rate with their hurdles here. Yes, the form of their horses at the moment could be better, but Hansard was a good weekend winner last Saturday so there are signs they are turning a corner.
They run two (Jupiter Du Gite) but their 4 year-old SPIRIT D’AUNOU gets the nod. He improved last season to win four on the spin and even though he disappointed on his return run at Cheltenham in October the form of that run has been boosted with the winner – Blueking D’Oroux – winning at Ascot since. Moore’s runners is also a proven course and distance winner (March 23) and with that success also coming on heavy ground we know conditions will be fine.
Langer Dan and the Henderson-trained Impose Toi are others to respect, with the Seven Barrows yard having a fair record in this race with wins in 2014 and 2016.
- SPIRIT D’AUNOU (e/w)
- Langer Dan
- Impose Toi
3:00: Betfair Tingle Creek Chase (Grade 1) (GBB Race) Cl1 (4yo+) 1m7½f ITV4:
SportsLens (Andy Newton) 1-2-3 Sandown Racing Tips: JONBON is the other big hot-pot on the card and, like Constitution Hill, it will be a shocker if he’s not winning too. This Nicky Henderson-trained 7 year-old was a useful hurdler but he’s making into an even better chaser having won six of his seven starts over fences.
The last of those wins came in the Shloer Chase at Cheltenham last month, where he destroyed last year’s Tingle Creek Chase winner Edwardstone by 9 1/2 lengths. More of the same it the call here with Jonbon also being 2-from-2 over fences at Sandown so we also know the track is fine.
Edwardstone, who is likely to run here with Sunday’s Huntingdon Peterborough Chase card in doubt, can follow him home again, with Boothill back in third.
- JONBON
- Edwardstone
- Boothill
3:35:Betfair Exchange London National Handicap Chase (GBB Race) Cl2 (5yo+ 0-150) 3m4½f ITV4:
SportsLens (Andy Newton) 1-2-3 Sandown Racing Tips: With sunset around 3:50pm then let’s hope there are no earlier delays of the jockeys might need headlamps here in the final race – the London National.
Run over a gruelling 3m 4 1/2f trip, it goes without saying stamina in abundance is the order of the day. FONTAINE COLLONGES has won over 3m 1 1/2f on soft ground at Haydock so this Venetia Williams runner has proved in the past she can last out, but the key to her is that he often goes well fresh.
She’s back from a 268-day break and has had a recent wind op too, and that Haydock we already mentioned last season came on his first run back. It was also off just a one pound lower mark and this is a race the Williams yard also took 12 months ago with Quick Wave so will be keen to follow-up.
The Paul Nicholls-trained Broken Halo is a course winner and can go well too having won twice before at the Esher track, while another with proven track form is Fortescue, who looks best of those at bigger odds.
- FONTAINE COLLONGES
- BROKEN HALO
- FORTESCUE
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