Sam Turner's Racing Tips: All the best bets for Saturday, April 25

By Sam Turner For The Daily Mail

Published: 14:34 EST, 24 April 2015 | Updated: 15:09 EST, 24 April 2015

It is perhaps fitting that Tony McCoy’s glittering journey ends on Saturday at Sandown, a stage which played host to one of his finest victories aboard Hennessy in the Bet365 Gold Cup six years ago.

Quite how McCoy, the 20-times champion jockey, managed to steer Carl Llewellyn’s charge past Briery Fox close to home is still hard to work out.

McCoy was only fourth at the final fence, comfortably adrift after some unconvincing jumping.

Tony McCoy's last ever mount will be Box Office in the Bet365 Handicap Hurdle, which has 20 runners

Tony McCoy's last ever mount will be Box Office in the Bet365 Handicap Hurdle, which has 20 runners

Rather typically, McCoy played down his achievement in wrestling another victory from the jaws of defeat and, having been fortunate to watch the great man compete for the past two decades, his day-to-day voracity for winners and enormous humility have been wonderful to witness. It is surprising that the great man will watch Saturday's Bet365 Gold Cup from the weighing room, butMR MOLE (Sandown, 3.15) and the suitably-named BOX OFFICE (Sandown, 4.25) look to hold excellent chances of providing a true legend with an emotional triumph on his final day.

Predicting what Mr Mole will produce is never easy, but he does at least like Saturday's track and the small field will be to his liking.

His yard have done a wonderful job turning him inside out this term, but SPECIAL TIARA will love the ground and the figures followers will point to his fine third in the Champion Chase being the best run of his career.

I am a huge fan of his trainer, Henry de Bromhead, who again illustrated at Aintree with Sizing Granite that he is a man to be respected on big days.

The eight-year-old Special Tiara has bright prospects of improving on his third place in this event 12 months ago.

The lightly-raced Box Office could go off at a ridiculous price, given the competitiveness of the Bet365 Handicap Hurdle.

In three UK starts he has looked to be a horse that would appreciate two and a half miles and it will be enthralling to see how he goes after promising efforts at Aintree and Cheltenham.

 

SANDOWN

2.00 Lil Rockerfeller

2.35 Al Ferof

3.15 Special Tiara

3.50 Grand Jesture

4.25 Box Office

5.00 Generous Ransom

5.35 Aqalim

LEICESTER

1.55 Soapy Aitken

2.30 Major Crispies

3.05 Canyari

3.40 Jolievitesse

4.15 Coulsty

4.45 Gabrial The Tiger

5.20 Storm The Stars

5.50 Chapter And Verse

RIPON 

1.45 Lady Kashaan

2.15 Risk Adjusted

2.50 King Torus

3.25 Barkston Ash

4.00 Fattsota

4.35 Decorated Knight

5.10 Beau Eile

HAYDOCK

1.50 The Lampo Genie

2.20 Yourartisonfire (nb)

2.55 Persun

3.30 Newstead Abbey (nap)

4.05 Gabrial The Viking

4.40 Suni Dancer

5.15 Memory Cloth

WOLVERHAMPTON 

6.15 Archie Stevens

6.45 Chloe’s Image

7.15 Red Baron

7.45 Rembrandt Van Rijn

8.15 Sequester

8.45 Admirable Art

9.15 Alkawn

 

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