Saturday Racing Cheat Sheet: Best bets for ITV Racing on Betfair Tingle Creek day at Sandown

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Tips Summary

Race	Tipster	Tip	Odds
13:20 Sandown	Mark Milligan	Absolute Doyen	Win @ 9/25.50
13:50 Sandown	Katie Midwinter	Be Aware	Win @ 4/15.00
14:05 Aintree	Paul Nicholls	Treasure Planet	N/A
14:25 Sandown	Sam Turner	Knickerbockerglory	Win @ 11/53.20
14:40 Aintree	Alan Dudmna	Bioluminescence	Win @ 6/17.00
15:00 Sandown	Katie Midwinter	Jonbon	Win @ 16/54.20
15:35 Sandown	Sam Turner	Tanganyika	Win @ 16/54.20

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Saturday horse racing tips and insight

Sandown 13:20 - Mark Milligan: Nicholls runner gets the vote 

Martin Keighley's Turndlightsdownlow shaped with promise in a pair of maidens before getting off the mark at the third time of asking switched to a handicap at Kempton last month, bolting up by 11 lengths from Lunar Power. He then followed up at the same track by another wide margin and appears to be improving at a rate of knots.

However, the waters are deeper here and he does need to prove his stamina for an extra couple of furlongs, so I'm going to side with Absolutely Doyen, who's progressing well himself.

Paul Nicholls' five-year-old completed simple tasks at Stratford and Sedgefield earlier this autumn before stepping up on those efforts when recording the hat-trick on his first try in handicap company at Ascot last time, readily handling the step up to 3m. With his stamina proven in testing conditions, Absolutely Doyen gets the vote to continue on his merry way and notch a four-timer.

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Sandown 13:50 - Katie Midwinter: Be Aware of nother winner for Skelton

Lulamba made a solid start to his chasing career and is the one to beat on potential in this field, however, he faces some formidable opponents and Be Aware makes the most appeal from the opposition. 

The six-year-old grey, who is following a similar path to talented stablemate L'Eau du Sud, has appeared twice over fences this season, winning well on chasing debut at Stratford before finding exciting prospect July Flower too good at Cheltenham. 

He lost little in defeat in the Arkle Trial at last month's November Meeting, beaten only by an extremely promising Henry de Bromhead-trained representative, and, whilst this is a step up in Grade, he has amassed valuable experience and has proven he possesses plenty of talent. 

The best could be yet to come from Be Aware as a chaser, and, having already shown to be a capable jumper of a fence, he could pose a serious threat to the warm favourite.

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Aintree 14:05 - Paul Nicholls: Treasure Planet is hoping to go well

He's a progressive young horse, he won well the last day at Ludlow, he won it nicely although I don't think it was much of a race. He's progressing, but soft ground is a bit of an unknown but hopefully he'll go very well.

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Sandown 14:25 - Sam Turner: Go for Glory

The selection's record now stands at six wins from nine starts when he has been rested for more than seven weeks, impressive figures given the class of handicap he often contests. He returns to try and defend his crown here and there is no reason why he shouldn't go close to repeating his victory of last year given he is just 6lb higher.

Admittedly, he does face a little more pace pressure this time round, but he ran a blinder in the Lanzarote Hurdle last March when facing a contested lead and he ought to go close again here with this race surely the plan for some time.

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Aintree 14:40 - Alan Dudman: Irish raider can land Becher Chase

I am sticking with Bioluminescence at 6/17.00 in the betting, although the stat with Gavin Cromwell has to be a cause for concern with just one win at the time of writing from a massive 61 runners. Stats and runs are there to be broken and Cromwell is too good a trainer to be cold for long and Cromwell is usually one of the chief nourishers in the winner's list feast. 

With plenty of pace forecast and barely a hold-up horse in sight, you cannot be mithered in doubt here with a horse holding stamina questions, nor a runner and the potential for soft ground. That means Mr Vango has to be in there with a good run as he stays, stays and stays, much like Dr Syntax's old horse Drizzle.

Val Dancer might be good enough for a place with his ability to stay, plus he's got a great weight and he can still perform to a level from 130 for Mel Rowley.

1) Bioluminescence

2) Mr Vango

3) Val Dancer

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Sandown 15:00 - Katie Midwinter: Hat-trick of Betfair Tingle Creeks for Jonbon?

A dual winner of the race, consistent performer Jonbon can achieve a record-equalling hat-trick under Nico de Boinville despite suffering defeat in both of his previous two races. 

He hadn't lost twice in a row prior to a 15-length defeat by L'Eau du Sud at Cheltenham last month, but had some excuses that day with the softening ground in torrential rain and should fare better on his return to Sandown. 

Prior to his loss to Il Etait Temps in the Celebration Chase last season, Jonbon was unbeaten at this track. He had put in multiple solid performances here, and this venue appeared to suit better than Cheltenham. 

This could be one of his greatest achievements should he be able to beat a field which includes a pair of progressive, younger rivals, both of whom have beaten him in recent runs, and he will need to be at his best to do so. 

At the prices, the Nicky Henderson-trained star makes the most appeal and could achieve redemption at his beloved Sandown.

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Sandown 15:35 - Sam Turner: Deutsch to get it right this time

It is very easy for pundits to criticise jockeys and call them out for errors of judgement.

Riders have to make split second decisions in a pressurised atmosphere and it is impossible to always make the correct call, so we ought to give them some leeway if they don't always execute their race plan to perfection.

I may be totally wrong, but I wonder if Charlie Deutsch would liked to have had the chance to change his ride on Tanganyika at Cheltenham last time after his mount faded into fifth, beaten 12 lengths by winner Marble Sands.

Deutsch is usually a pretty good judge of pace, but he made the decision to go hammer and tongs with Protektorat and Beauport racing towards the eighth fence and, after a protracted duel with those rivals, weakened out of the fight heading to the last fence, recording just the sixth best finishing speed percentage in the race.  

In fairness to Deutsch, that is the fourth time Tanganyika has been well beaten off a break in excess of 198 days - his form figures read 8555 under those circumstances - and I would hope he would be a great deal sharper for his second start today.

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