Saturday Racing Multi Tips: Botti and Bethell to hit the scoresheet in weekend 36/1 double

Leicester, 14:05: Back Prince Of India @ 13/27.50

A 0-105 at Leicester is like finding gold in the hills, and while the football team of the city has reached a nadir, the racecourse on Saturday will have the honour of one race on ITV.

It's a cracking handicap too over the 6f and with one runner from earlier this week in my antepost column opting for a different route rather than this race, I have diverting my gaze to Marco Botti's Prince Of India.

Botti, a streaky trainer at best in terms of form, has won with two of of his last seven runners and appears high on the hot trainers' list with 7-21 at 33% recently showing a level stakes profit of +6.37 from those winners.

Prince Of India won on Shergar Cup Day at Ascot last summer from a mark of 98 and subsequently ran a fine race at York at Listed level behind Elmonjed with slightly different tactics as at Ascot he came from a lot further back to win.

He's very much a quick ground horse and conditions will play to his strengths and while he ran no sort of race at Newmarket in the Group 3 Abernant recently and never got involved from a rear position, he is back in handicap company and can justify the market support too here.

Haydock, 14:35: Back Khafiz @ 4/15.00

Khafiz was one of my antepost picks for the Leicester feature but instead opts for this, in a race I like Sarab Star too and it's hard to split the pair.

I am going to stick with Khafiz for the 4/15.00 second leg as his run at Doncaster in October looks a fairly strong piece of form. Third, and not beaten far behind Rogue Diplomat, that horse has subsequently finished second in this season's Lincoln.

While Khafiz acts on soft it seems, he did win a novice when previously trained by Roger Varian on fast ground last term over 7f at Doncaster and showed the best acceleration in terms of his final sectional with the fastest 11.82 off a steady pace as one of only two to clock sub-12 second final furlongs.

He is very much unexposed and it will be interesting to see what new trainer Ed Bethell can do with his last term - starting here from a mark of 97 and big player with the fast going.

Alan Dudman's notable recent single winners:

Pilgrim 8.88 Win BSP, place 3.3, Cool Hoof Luke 4.4 BSP, Doyen Du Bar 3.36 BSP, Lookaway 4.43 BSP, Montregard 4.7 BSP, Mondui'boy 1.8 BSP, Heathcliff 7.77 BSP, Tortured Soul 5.6 BSP.

Winning recent multiples: 14/02/26: 40/1, 01/11/25: 30/1

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