Dave Nevison's top tips for Saturday: 13lb rise not enough to stop Rocco
By Dave Nevison
Last Updated: Tue 5 Dec 2023
There is some brilliant action on Saturday with four Graded races at Kempton and the Winter Derby taking centre stage at Lingfield.
Here are three for you to consider. Best of luck.
Dave Nevison
Finished: 6thSP: 7/4
This horse is a model of consistency and is a feature of these all-weather conditions sprints in which the classy performers like Kachy don’t show up in.
In my view, he is better than Ornate and Gracious John and should gain yet another reward for his consistency here.
Three-year-old Gorgeous Noora is emerging as another Lingfield specialist and might well provide the main danger.
Dave Nevison
Finished: 1stSP: 1/4
This horse won the Cambridgeshire in the style of Halling, one of John Gosden’s early winners of that race, and the way he is going, Wissahickon looks on his way to reaching a similar Group One standard.
He toyed with Big Country last time out and he looks his main rival again on Saturday.
Wissahickon should prove tough to beat.
Dave Nevison
Finished: 6thSP: 4/1
I do not know whether the Leighton Aspell Fan Club is still going but, if so, it has a real chance of picking up a few more members as I expect him to steer Glen Rocco to victory in this big Saturday Handicap.
Glen Rocco did not make his debut until he was a six-year-old and is still lightly raced, but he is on a steep upward curve now.
He was faultless last time out over course and distance and ended up winning by 23 lengths, so the handicapper has not been generous.
13lbs is a steep raise by any reckoning but I take the view that he looked, on that occasion, more like a 150 plus horse than one who can run off 137 here.
If I am right, he will win this comfortably.
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