'There's one certainty in this year's Tingle Creek' - Keith Melrose on Sandown

Saturday: 2.55 Sandown
Betfair Tingle Creek Chase (Grade 1) | 1m7½f | 4yo+ | ITV4/RTV

Paul Nicholls' record in the Tingle Creek is one of few examples of complete domination of a British jumps race. He has won exactly half the 24 runnings since he saddled his first Tingle Creek runner, Lake Kariba, in 1998.

Lake Kariba, like five others among Nicholls' 40 runners in the Tingle Creek before this year, arrived having won the Haldon Gold Cup at Exeter on his previous start.