Three-year-old can take advantage of generous allowance
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2.20 Sandown
1pt winEuginio
4.00 Sandown
2pts winBold Prediction
7.30 Chelmsford
1pt each-wayIt's not often you get a Class 2 handicap in which nearly all the runners are out of form, but that's the case with the Besso Handicap at Sandown (4.00) this afternoon.
One of the exceptions in the nine-runner affair is lone three-year-old , who looks to have outstanding claims if the 79-day break he's had since running an excellent second on his return at Newmarket does not mask a problem.
It probably doesn't given he had six-week breaks between his first and second, and second and third starts last season and, as he won first time out last year, freshness might be the key to him.
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