Dave Nevison's Saturday tips: Bets for Sandown and Wincanton

It has been a pretty good week for my column on racingtv.com but, despite two winners (at 8-1 and 7-1) on Thursday evening, I had real frustration on Wednesday with a very small each-way Trixie. It went down on the first leg, but De Vegas Kid looked unlucky not to finish fourth, at least, after meeting traffic problems. Hopefully some of you got paid out on the 40-1 for First Company, though, as that that selection stayed on into fourth later on the card.

Extra place races have become the norm, rather than the exception, these days but they can be really rewarding, and are worth seeking out. Hopefully I can continue the good run to Saturday and maybe even land the each-way Yankee. Best of luck, and don’t forget to enjoy all the action on Racing TV.

Sadly, I have been landing on the wrong ones when tipping up horses trained by Venetia Williams, and ridden by Charlie Deutsch, my favourite depth-of-winter combo, but hopefully Gemirande will rectify that and provide another winner for the pair.

Admittedly, Gemirande is a pretty obvious choice but looks a good start for a weekend multiple, perhaps.

He looks an ideal contender for Sandown as he’s a bold jumping, front runner who is likely to only have a three-mile chaser take him on for the lead here.

His win at Southwell looks very strong form given he beat Our Jet (who has won comfortably subsequently) and a 10lb rise for that success certainly doesn’t seem to be insurmountable by any means.

I am very much backing the jockey more than the horse here as I think that Freddie Gingell is definitely a rider to side with while he has a 7lb claim to exploit.

Gingell saved my bacon on Boxing Day with a phenomenally determined ride on West Orchard who was backed from 14-1 to 6-1, but is most unwilling as well, and Gingell managed to persuade his mount to stay on into fourth place.

The case for Seymour Promise is the application of further headgear, a 9lb drop in the weights in one go, and Gingell taking 7lb off.

It is to be hoped the selection might come on for his first run of the season and this isn’t the strongest contest, despite the numbers, so he ought to be going close.

I am pinning my hopes to last year’s winner of this race who has clearly been laid out for a repeat win, although I was torn between backing Prime Venture, and the top-weight Ramses De Teillie who showed really good form when winning at Warwick last time out plus is still 10lb lower than his highest mark.

The case for the Evan Williams-trained runner is easy to make as he has dropped down to the same rating he won this race off last year and has had two quiet runs over hurdles this season under the trainer’s daughter, Eleanor, who claims 7lb.

Prime Venture definitely showed enough on those outings without the headgear to suggest he might awaken when required, and with cheekpieces reapplied, and Adam Wedge back on board for this valuable prize, this is obviously the target.

The Freddie Gingell factor was shown to fantastic effect on this horse last time out over this course and distance, and with just a 5lb rise since, No Hubs No Hoobs can follow up here.

This seven-year-old was a very expensive purchase as he is related to good chasers throughout his pedigree, so it is no surprise that he has landed his first success having been switched to fences.

A rating of 104 is an insult to No Hubs No Hoobs’ pedigree and hopefully he will progress through the ranks this season, while his association with Gingell is certainly a positive one.