Who To Follow At Sandown On Friday - 22/04/22

James Mackie

Wed 20 Apr 2022 13.13

Sandown 14:35

6(4)

River Thames

J: Ryan Moore

T: A P O'Brien

N/A

Age: 3

Weight: 9-1

OR: N/A

Days: 220

The feature event of the afternoon on Friday from Sandown is the Group Three Classic Trial over 1m2f and we feel that Aidan O'Brien could have a big hand to play with River Thames.

The three year old son of multiple G1 winner Churchill was seen once as a two year old last term when winning a decent 14 runner maiden at Punchestown over a mile.

It looks as though this year, Churchill's crop of horse could have a big season and with O'Brien having won this in the past he knows the type of horse that is needed to do so.

The race has not fallen apart as much as we thought from an ante-post stage but he still holds a big chance on merit.

Form: 1View

Date	Course	Distance	Type	Weight	Position
22/04/22	SAN	10	Gd	9-1	5
14/09/21	PUN	8	Gd	9-7	1

John & Thady Gosden send a strong team to Sandown on Friday with some big runners across the more valuable events on the afternoon.

Starting in the Esher Cup the training partnership field Find who showed some smart form last term and this owners horses are going well this term.

In the Group Three Gordon Richards Stakes they have Mostahdaf, who will be very tough to beat if running to the same form of his last two wins.

Sunray Major goes for the yard in the bet365 Mile looking to jump into Group Two company having only ran in handicaps previously.

The feature Classic Trial sees the Gosden's field Frantastic and Franz Strauss who could be anything both being well bred horses.

Others to note for the yard in the rest of the races are Emily Upjohn, Darmoiselle and Emotion that all go for top connections.

Tom Marquand heads into this meeting in fine form currently running at a strike rate of 20% for the last two weeks managing to land 10 winners from his last 51 rides.

In the opener he has a leading chance with the Martyn Meade trained Auditor, who was a nice winner when last seen at Windsor and should build on that now in handicap company.

Marquand then rides Remembering on debut in the Fillies' Novice Stakes with the three year old being a well bred daughter of Frankel.

In the finale Marquand teams up with William Muir & Chris Grassick on Red Vineyard who is looking to get back to the form of his debut.

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