Saturday Racing Tips at Cheltenham and Doncaster | Raceolly

Kinondo Kwetu has been busy over the summer having been given a summer jumpstart schedule to take advantage of the better ground. He’s won twice before finishing a good second on his last three starts and still finds himself below handicap marks he placed off last season. He has a brilliant strike rate in chases and been highly tried in his short career to date and strikes me as a potential Grand National horse this season should he get his mark up a little more.

He has the fitness edge on the field here and will be looking to take advantage when the ground is decent.

Tom Lacey is always worth a follow in handicaps and this time of year he starts getting the machine rolling. Across his entire career he has a 21%-win rate in handicaps with 195 winners from 943 runners and he is coming off the back of a phenomenal season last year.

Cruz Control finds himself very well handicapped over hurdles here having shot up to a mark of 140 over the larger obstacles last season after finding his feet over the marathon trips. He goes well fresh, and ground should be no problem.

Walbank is an interesting runner in this having quickly dropped down the handicap lately below his last win mark. Placed in group races as a two-year-old he ran an eye-catching race last time despite finishing seventh of 10.

He was badly hampered and had to sit and suffer before running on late, dropped a further 2lb for that effort here and quickly turns back out for this. He is more than capable of winning a race like this and potentially a race at a higher grade. Hugely overpriced all things considered.