Dave Nevison's Saturday tips: best bets at Sandown and Haydock
By Dave Nevison
Last Updated: Fri 24 Apr 2026
Top tipster Dave Nevison shares his selections for the action at Sandown, which includes a fancy in the £175,000 bet365 Gold Cup, and Haydock. Enjoy both meetings live on Racing TV.
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1.45 Sandown: Way Of Stars
Way Of Stars has plenty of experience having achieved a rating of 88 on the flat, and he won his maiden on good to firm ground at Goodwood last year.
He has also taken well to hurdles this season and came good on his third start with the hood applied when beating a useful next time out winner at Taunton in March.
Four-year-old's have a good record in this race, and David Pipe’s gelding might be well in on his handicap debut off a rating of just 115.
The selection is taking on several promising types in this contest, but most of those at the front of the market look like real national nunt types who will come into their own over fences, and other further, next season and beyond.
He looks an attractive each-way prospect here.
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2.35 Haydock: Khafiz
Ed Bethell is one of those trainers who is rarely out of form, but he is in a pretty rich vein of form having operated at a 29 per cent strike-rate in the past fortnight (at the time of writing).
Bethell runs Khafiz here, and he looks an interesting prospect making his debut for the yard having moved North from Roger Varian.
The four-year-old won on his seasonal reappearance last year, and followed up in another minor event, so clearly goes well fresh, and he finished last season with a good effort over this trip at Doncaster.
He could have been raised more than a pound for that narrow defeat, and he could also be ideally suited by this course and distance.
He's well drawn in stall four, and should therefore be able to assume a favourable prominent position.
3.30 Sandown: In D’Or
The last time we saw this gelding was in a handicap at Ascot in February where In D’Or finished third to The Jukebox Kid, and I believe that race could be the key form indicator for this £175,000 prize.
Almost every contender that came out of that event seems to have scored next time out, and it represents strong form indeed.
Fergal O’Brien’s gelding is 7lb better off with Montregard, who finished 3½ lengths in front of him. In my view, that makes the selection well treated.
In D’Or showed he stayed this distance at last year's Cheltenham Festival where he finished a staying-on sixth, and he would definitely have been closer but for a significant error early on in the race.
He has run a couple of very creditable races at Sandown, so clearly handles this track well, and with him still being fresh, and lightly-raced over fences, he looks open to more upside than many of his rivals.
The O’Brien yard is ending this season in good form, and winning a race like this would be a fitting end.
5.15 Sandown: Tour Ovalie
Apart from her hurdling debut, this mare has been ridden exclusively by Isabel Williams, who has steered her to six victories.
Despite the partnership’s success, the booking of champion jockey Sean Bowen for this bottom weight still catches the eye.
Tour Ovalie is ideally suited by a strong pace in a big-field handicap where she can be delivered late. She was too far out of her ground at Chepstow last time out, and couldn't get competitive.
This could well be the ideal scenario for her with, the Sandown finish much more suitable than Chepstow, and a strong early pace is pretty much guaranteed here.
It would be another fitting end to his season if Sean Bowen could come flying up the Sandown hill and strike aboard Tour Ovalie.
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