Sam King

Sam King focuses his attention on the card at Newcastle and pinpoints two runners to get stuck into this Tuesday. 12:43 NEWCASTLE A mark of 72 should prove more than workable for Selenic based on her battling novice success over a mile at Kempton a year ago and you can put a line straight through her handicap debut effort at Southwell, where she found herself badly hampered when making eye-catching progress. A stoutly-bred daughter of Sea The Moon out of a Teofilo mare, Selenic looked to be...

Sam King focuses on Tuesday’s action at Wincanton as he pinpoints two runners worth following. 1.30 Wincanton Paul Nicholls saddles two in the two and a half mile novice hurdle at Wincanton and it could prove worth taking a chance on the apparent second string Lancelot d’Alene. He was incredibly disappointing when a tailed off last of eight at Chepstow on his hurdling debut 65 days ago, but he was sent off just 15/8 there and surely better was expected. A runner-up in an English...

Sam King heads to Newcastle this Tuesday for his best bets of the day. 17:00 NEWCASTLE Paul Midgley is something of a dab hand at getting the best out of all-weather sprinters and Lethal Nymph looks ready to get back to winning ways for the handler. A winner of this course and distance early last month, he couldn’t have been much more unlucky when attempting to follow up nineteen days ago, travelling powerfully before struggling for racing room. He’s better-weighed with old rival Dark Cloud...