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Johnny and DJ have a Sandown banker they can't contemplate defeat for - but their fancies clash in the same race!

Upping The Ante stars Johnny Dineen and David Jennings provide their best bets for the weekend action

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How did last weekend go for you both?

Johnny Dineen: The weekend itself wasn't too bad at all, but I had a particularly nasty day on Easter Monday when I failed to back a single winner. Indeed, it probably would have got worse if I hadn't put my punting tools away at around 4pm and taken my punishment. One of the losses was a lay of Blue Lemons, who could afford to jump like Long John Silver after two bottles of rum and still win apologising at Fairyhouse. It was galling to be so far wrong, but that’s the game and although it was a horrific start to my punting week, I have managed to claw a bit back since and I’m not ruling out the possibility of a full recovery should I play well over the next two days. 

DJ: Read To Return was a strong fancy of mine last Saturday, but I had to wait until Tuesday after day one of Fairyhouse's Easter festival was pushed back to Tuesday. I was chuffed to see him winning at 15-2 as it hadn't been a great couple of days until then. 

How close will the British trainers' title be? Can Dan Skelton actually hold on? 

Johnny:  It won't be in any way close and it's the media who are the only ones bigging it up as some sort of duel. In reality, the referee could have stopped the contest when the horses rounded the Elbow in the Grand National three weeks ago. Skelton has the same chance of winning the trainers' title as I would have of beating Tyson Fury in 12 rounds. Maybe I could catch him with a head-butt to his private parts when I’m trying to run through his legs but you’d imagine that would hardly be sufficient and whatever Dan Skelton can throw at Willie Mullins at Sandown is going to come up similarly short. 

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