Best horse racing tips for today’s action at Aintree, Wetherby, Sandown, Chepstow and Wolverhampton from Tom Bull
Don't miss out on Tom Bull's best bets at today's four meetings
THE rain has really got into the ground this week and I've had to spend most of my days shaking water from my hide.
However, it makes picking winners a tad easier and I'm keen on a few stamina-sappers to get me through the lousy weather.
Aintree
2.40 Giving Glances - On the face of it this looks a pretty hot Listed race, but I reckon it can be boiled down to just a couple of contenders.
Alan King's effortless Hereford winner stands out as being a filly that could go onto better things.
She beat a vastly inferior field at the Midlands track and although this is a much stiffer contest, her trainer knows a good juvenile when he sees one.
She won't mind the soft ground and can see off some smart sorts.
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Wetherby
2.50 Movie Legend - Found the progressive Bun Doran too hot to handle at Cheltenham last time out but he finished clear of Peppay Le Pugh, who has gone on to frank the form in some style.
This looks an easier contest and he's running off the same mark as when winning over course and distance this time last year.
Lucy Wadham's horses couldn't be in better form with three of her last eight runners winning.
He looks a good thing to continue her fine run.
Sandown
2.25 Totterdown - Well and truly earned a 10lb rise for winning with head in chest at the track last time out, dominating a big field to score with ease.
This test is a very different kettle of fish and he'll have to give lots of weight away, but he's won three of his last five starts and we're yet to find out quite how good he is.
Apple's Shakira heads the weights but she was disappointing when last seen and has the look of a second season disappointment.
Danny Hiskett is good value for his 5lb and can steer his partner to another victory.
Bully's Saturday Bankers
2.25 Sandown - Totterdown
2.40 Aintree - Giving Glances
2.50 Wetherby - Movie Legend
3.40 Chepstow - Young Bull
6.45 Wolverhampton - Charming Kid
Chepstow
3.40 Young Bull - Wait until the lucky last for your banker at the Welsh venue, who actually happens to be a long-lost cousin of mine.
Harry Whittington's lightly-raced four-year-old may well have won his second point-to-point before falling, and on the basis of his strong staying-on third at Ffos Las last time he's a winner in waiting under rules.
The ground was bottomless that day and he did all his best work at the finish, so a heavy two mile slog at Chepstow looks the ideal test.
He can take this on just his second start for a trainer that does very well in bumpers.
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Wolverhampton
6.45 Charming Kid - Richard Fahey's Group race speedster is the class horse in the race and should be too good.
He finished third behind star colt Advertise in the July Stakes which bodes very well for his prospects here now lowered significantly in grade.
He's best in at the weights by some margin and if putting anything like his fastest foot forward on this all-weather debut should be too strong for his rivals.