Top tips for Saturday: Dave Nevison fancies a 22-1 chance

This race has an each-way feel about it, with a very short-priced Haggas runner heading the market.

Spioradalta is having a good season winning twice already and goes well at this track. He is well drawn in stall 3 for a front-runner (pace-setters do well at Beverley) and I feel that, even if he does get overhauled by the southern hotpot, he is very likely to hold on to a place, and at double figure odds, could be worth an each-way bet.

Kodi Lion will be favourite here and rightly so as he is effectively a winner without a penalty based on his unlucky second at Haydock last time. He met interference in the closing stages and, by the time he got a break, the winner had gone beyond recall, but he stayed on very well.

Mick Appleby has not had Kodi Lion long and initially tried to confirm he was a six-furlong sprinter, but he has upped him to seven furlongs on his last two runs and that seems a positive move.

He ran fifth in the big handicap on King George day at Ascot before his latest effort and only needs to reproduce either of those efforts off just a pound higher mark here.

William Buick has been booked for the ride and, given the form he was in at York, that will hardly hold back Kodi Lion who looks solid. He has proven form on soft and even heavy ground.

Regional has done me a couple of favours over a few seasons and I am happy to back Ed Bethell’s seven-year-old at a short price here.

Regional is absolutely a Group One sprinter and is favoured by conditions dropped to a Listed race here. He has finished in the frame in three top-level sprints already this year and there is no way he is losing his form just yet, but might well be in need of a confidence boost.

There will not be many who beat Regional out of the stalls as he is an exceptionally fast starter, possibly even speedier with blinkers applied for the first time, and I expect him to make all the running from stall 3.

Brioni has possibly not been the most consistent of runners, but a look through this year's form does give him some excuses for his flops and he does have a set of good efforts at Sandown to his name, including the win on his penultimate start.

He was caught out wide in the John Smith’s Cup at York last time which didn’t help and he is drawn widest here, but the way fields fan out in the home straight at Sandown doesn’t make a wide trip a disadvantage.

In fact, stall 13 won this 2 years ago, and I think Brioni could well be a little overpriced here. He runs well on soft ground.