Dave Massey is hoping to pad the Cheltenham warchest early and heads to Wolverhampton and Sandown for his latest round of Saturday Racing Tips. Read his latest tips, exclusively for kwiff.
Saturday Racing Tips: Value Plays, March 5th 2026
La Botte might prove better than a handicapper this season but this being his first start since that narrow neck defeat in the Royal Hunt Cup last year, plus the negative of stall 10 means I’m happy to look elsewhere for the winner today.
Saturday Racing Tips: Kingdom Come (Wolves, 2.42)
Clive Cox can barely trainer a loser at present and so his Kingdom Come (2.42) has to be included in your considerations. It never quite happened for Kingdom Come throughout 2025, despite some solid efforts, but a break and the retaining of some headgear did the trick for him at Kempton, getting the better of the consistent Popmaster (has run well since) by half a length. The handicapper reacts with a 3lb rise but that does not look enough, and he has three good efforts from three runs at Wolverhampton, all of which makes him look cracking each-way value from a good draw in stall 2.
Saturday Racing Tips: Knighton (Sandown, 1.15)
Superposition doesn’t win enough to be confident about, but that was an eyecatching run at Lingfield last time, not beaten far, and he should strip fitter for that first start since November. He’s nothing if not consistent, something he pays for with the handicapper barely moving him since the summer, but at a double-figure price I could have him onside as well.
Much like Natalie Imbruglia here, I’m torn. On the one hand, I was certain I wanted to be with Knighton (1.15) after a very eyecatching fourth to Senator at Market Rasen last time; I liked him a lot in the paddock, the right size for the hurdling game, and he was never really put under maximum pressure in finishing a seven-length fourth to Senator.
He’s clearly learning the game with each passing start, and was all for having a proper go on Saturday – then I noticed he’s not been declared with a hood, which seems to have helped him settle better on his last two runs. Has that been missed off my mistake, or did Craig Nichol get off last time and think it was no longer needed? Time will tell; I’ll have to have a small bet as if it wins without my money on it’s going to be a long old Saturday afternoon, but if he’s beaten here, bear him in mind if he reappears with that headgear next time.
Saturday Racing Tips: Tennessee Tango (Sandown, 1.50)
An open-looking race, as it always is, but if Tennessee Tango (1.50) doesn’t improve for this half-mile step up in trip then frankly I’ll be astounded. He has the look of one that will want further again than 2m4f in time, and with that connections have done well to keep his light hidden under a bushel by keeping him to two miles over hurdles so far.
The in-running comments tell you plenty – “kept on”, “stayed on”, and when successful in a little race at Plumpton last time, “went clear two out, canter”. He’s just been a big, raw type that has kept learning the job as he’s raced; upped 6lb for that win at Plumpton last time, connections perhaps thinking a mark of 116 might not have got him into this (as it turns out, he’d have crept in, but they weren’t to know that) but even his new mark looks more than workable. He should go well.
Saturday Racing Tips: Fingle Bridge (Sandown, 2.27)
I’m going in with top weight Fingle Bridge (2.27) here. He looked a class act in the paddock at Warwick last time and looked, for about 95% of that contest, like the winner, travelling smoothly into contention (traded as short as 1-4 as he turned for home) but couldn’t quite get to grips with all-the-way winner Phantomofthepoints, perhaps the extended 2m5f trip just a touch too far for him. All the same, it showed the engine was still very much intact after a patchy novice chase campaign, which was the main thing to take from the run.
Go back and look at some of his novice hurdle runs and a mark of 139 today still looks workable. In particular, pay attention to that Listed Exeter win around a year ago when he beat Regent’s Stroll, Julius des Pictons and Alexei; how well has that form worked out? Essentially, what we’re backing here is a fairly unexposed 8yo that may still have claims to being better than a handicapper. Built to carry big weights, drying ground a plus, and anything bigger than 12-1 looks a bet, to me.
By Dave Massey
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