Horse racing tips: Heroes Handicap Hurdle trends – we help you find the winner of the Sandown contest live on ITV4 using these trends
We narrow down the field to help you pick the winner of the Heroes Handicap Hurdle at Sandown which looks set to be a competitive contest
3.00 SANDOWN: Heroes Handicap Hurdle
WEIGHT for it — that’s the advice in the Heroes Handicap Hurdle.
A total of 47 horses have tried to carry more than 11 stone in the past 10 runnings of the race and none of them managed to win.
In fact, only seven of them hit the frame so it must go down as a pretty big negative.
In today’s race, that spells bad news for Beat That, Ubak, Prime Venture, Topofthegame, Flemcara, Taj Badalandabad, Theligny, Golan Fortune, Melrose Boy and Kris Spin.
That has more than cut the field in half with just one trend.
Another key factor is to have won once in the past five runs. Of the lower weights, that means we can dispense with Okotoks, Doesyourdogbite and Man Of Plenty.
That’s reduced the hopefuls to just five. Although it’s not the biggest sample, no horse aged older than nine has won in the past 10 years.
So Buywise and Folsum Blue fall by the wayside. King Of Fashion has been off for three months and that’s too long for a winner of this.
Trends tip for the Heroes Handicap Hurdle
All of a sudden there are just two left — Dashing Perk and Fourth Act.
Both horses won in a small field last time and, of the pair, DASHING PERK looks to have the most scope for improvement.
He has a handy weight for this handicap debut and has few miles on the clock.