The Unibet Veterans’ Handicap Chase at Sandown tomorrow (3 p.m.) is a fascinating contest with a first prize of more than £50,000. Any of the nine runners could win if performing to their best but, with the field aged between 11 and 13, most of them are now well past their prime.
Sam Brown and Eldorado Allen are the class acts in the field, even now officially rated at 153 and 149 respectively. Chambard is forecast to be the outsider of the field at odds of 20-1, but don’t forget it was only 14 months ago that he easily won the Boylesports Becher Handicap Chase on heavy ground at Aintree.
My preference, however, in this three-mile contest is for a horse from the in-form yard of Henry Daly, who has had four winners from just 14 runners in the past 14 days for a winning strike rate of 29 per cent. His runner, FORTESCUE, was a good staying chaser in his prime and still retains ability.
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