Race of the Day: Smart Gosden colt offers each-way value

Alan Thomson picked out an 11/1 winner at Windsor earlier this week and returns with a look at Friday’s best betting race, live on Sky Sports Racing.

The Sky Sports Racing cameras are at Doncaster on Friday for an eight-race card and the Vertem Very Different Stockbrokers Handicap (4.38), a one-mile-and-two-furlongs Class Three contest featuring nine three-year-olds, is nominated for today’s wager.

THE GROUNDWORK

Doncaster, at almost two miles round, is one of the country’s most galloping tracks and the left-handed circuit has a run-in of more than four furlongs. The official going on Thursday morning was described as good to soft, good in places and some heavy showers are predicted.

Richard Hannon is top trainer this season, saddling 10 winners from 42 runners, while Andrew Balding 6-24, William Haggas 5-18 and Charlie Appleby 5-18 boast a healthy strike-rate.

Jockeys Daniel Muscutt, William Buick and Rossa Ryan share top honours with seven winners apiece, one ahead of Danny Tudhope. They are all in action on Town Moor.