Tolworth Hurdle Betting Guide and Trends

The 2012 National Hunt action moves up a notch this Saturday as Sandown Racecourse stages a decent card that includes the 32 Red Novices’ Hurdle – the Tolworth Hurdle to you and me!
 
Jan. 3, 2012 - PRLog -- Tolworth Hurdle Betting Guide

At this stage there are only nine entered, but what the race lacks in quantity it certainly makes up for in quality.

Leading novices Prospect Wells, trained by Paul Nicholls, and Colour Squadron, who is in the care of Philip Hobbs, will be popular in the betting, while Nicky Henderson could run his Captain Conan for the first time.

Henderson said: "Captain Conan is a most likely starter. You won't have heard of him nor seen him but you most probably will on Saturday."

After receiving five initial entries on Monday, the race was reopened and attracted a bigger field of nine on Tuesday for the Grade 1 contest that is run over Sandown’s 2m trip.

Prospect Wells, who will be hoping to add to Paul Nicholls’ excellent record in the race, was last seen running fourth in the Ladbroke Hurdle at Ascot just before Christmas after being sent off as the market leader. He’s been raised 3lbs for that run, but was only beaten 1 ½ lengths that day, while the smaller field on Saturday might also be in his favour – Ruby Walsh rides.

Colour Squadron beat the classy Montbazon on soft ground at Newbury last month and with this only being his fourth career run then there’s a good chance we’ve not seen the best of him yet either.

Of the rest, Magnifique Etoile, who is still unbeaten over hurdles, Arab League, who loves to front run, Aussie Blue, High Storm, Judiciary and Seedless are the others that make up the nine at this stage.


Key Tolworth Hurdle Betting Trends


Paul Nicholls has won 4 of the last 7 renewals
Nicky Henderson won the race 12 months ago
4 of the last 5 runnings went to the favourite
ALL 8 recent winners returned 5/1 or SHORTER in the betting
Ruby Walsh has ridden 2 of the last 3 winners
7 of the last 8 winners were aged either 5 or 6 years-old



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