Doncaster free racing tips: Stage set for another big run from course-distance winner
- Tipstrr writer
- 25 October 2024
There’s still plenty for flat racing fans to enjoy before the curtain comes down on the 2024 season, and this six-furlong sprint should be an entertaining highlight of Friday’s meeting at Doncaster.
15:18 Doncaster: William Hill More Top Prices Handicap (6 furlongs)
The most attractive bets at the early prices are one of the two previous course-distance winners in the line-up, Aleezdancer, and the prolific six-furlong winner at the top of the handicap, Commanche Falls.
Under an inexperienced claimer, Aleezdancer ran a lot better than suggested by his midfield finishing position in the Coral Sprint Trophy at York two weeks ago.
That valuable Class 2 handicap took place over this distance on soft ground at York, where the five-year-old raced well away from the main action and was held a long way off the pace, before passing a whole host of rivals in the closing stages without being given anything like a vigorous ride.
That bare result can be marked up significantly and, under almost identical conditions here, it sets the sprinter up perfectly for the return to the saddle of Neil Callan, who hasn’t ridden Aleezdancer since teaming up to win the 21-runner Churchill Tyres Handicap at York back in May.
Best Bet: Aleezdancer each-way in the 15:18 at Doncaster
Aleezdancer won that ultra-competitive event easily by 1½ lengths and he is only 2lbs higher in his far less competitive race. The blinkers he wore that day were discarded last time, but are fitted again today and everything is in place for a big run.
Four of his last five wins were achieved over six furlongs with cut in the ground and as an easy course-distance winner off today’s mark under these conditions, he looks a good bet to record another c/d success.
Of the others, Commanche Falls is a multiple six-furlong winner in high-class events, including a Group 3 and two Listed events, as well as a whole host of high-class handicaps which included back-to-back Stewards’ Cups, the first of which was achieved on similar soft ground.
His last handicap win came off 103 and he was third of 19 off 107 in a big Class 2 at York in August, so he is a major player, even off his lofty mark of 105.
Next Best Bet: Comanche Falls each-way in the 15:18 at Doncaster
- Preview and tips provided Steve Jones, who runs CD Systems Daily Bargain on Tipstrr
