Musselburgh
The first leg gets underway with Musselburgh’s Tote sponsored Royal Mile Handicap at 1:50pm.
Archie Watson has a 38% strike rate at the Scottish track and looks to have a great chance to extend that with MANITOU in leg one. He improved for being gelded as a 2yo last season, winning twice, including in Sweden before finding Listed company a bit too hot at Chantilly last October. In calmer waters today, he’s the one to beat.
Musselburgh
Another trainer with a good record at the Edinburgh venue is Grant Tuer, who is 7 from 28 in races there for 4yo+. He has just the one runner on Saturday, and it comes in the Silver Arrow, which is leg two. He runs DIRTYOLDTOWN who was disappointing at Doncaster last weekend, but returns to 7f again where he has form figures of 12 in two runs over the distance. Add that to a career low mark of 86, he was a head second off 87, and he’s worth a second chance.
Haydock
Haydock brings us some jumps action in leg three and FEIVAL could get redemption after tipping up at Wetherby last month. He was only beaten 1¼ lengths by Mucho Mas at Sandown before that and reopposes of the same mark, but with his rival now 4lb higher.
Musselburgh
Southern trainers haven’t had much recent joy in Musselburgh’s Sprint Cup, with Rutland-based Michael Appleby about as South as it gets for winning trainers since 2014. Norton’s Julie Camacho can keep that going this year with MAKANAH. He won the Flying Scotsman over course and distance on good-to-soft to finish last season, and with identical conditions today, a 1lb rise is manageable.
Haydock
Another trip to Haydock for the Stayers Hurdle Series Final. No Sire De Berlais in sight, but ITSO FURY will be hoping to be just as good. His trainer Jonjo O’Neil has won this race three times since 2017, including two of the last three renewals, and could have another one laid out for this.
Musselburgh
The final leg is the Tote Summer World Pool Queen’s Cup and the favourite normally gets their colours lowered in this. Instead, take on the market leader with another Archie Watson runner in OUTBOX. If he can get in a nice rhythm at the top end of proceedings then he should give us a good run for our money, even off top weight.
We’ve an excellent pot to try and crack this Easter Weekend with £83,773 rolling into the Scoop6 win fund and £79,617 already in the bonus pot. That gives us a £200,000 estimated figure for the combined pools this afternoon.
Have you downloaded the Tote app? It's the easiest way to place your pools bets on today's racing.
