Disclaimer: Compulsive gambling can harm your health and relationships, and leave you in serious debt. If you have a problem with gambling and you’d like to stop, support and treatment is available. To find information, support and counselling on gambling addiction, please visit the NHS website: www.bit.ly/NHSGambling

A KIND of intermediate weekend before the intense Irish Champion Stakes action in seven days time along with the Group One Sprint Cup at Haydock Park, but there are still some good prizes up for offer and purely from a betting perspective the 10 furlong handicap at Sandown Park (3.00) very much caught the eye with 14 runners set to go to post.

The likely favourite is Gaassee as he drops down to a stiff mile and a quarter, and I was tempted by him especially as he still remains open to a modicum of improvement, with this being just his ninth start on turf and his fourth over this distance. He could be worth a saver bet behind my each-way play DUAL IDENTITY.

The William Knight-trained runner is a course and distance winner off a mark of 80, followed up by being placed off 86, he then couldn’t hack running off a rating in the 90s since.