Sandown Stakes 2020 betting preview, tips & odds

Junipal

What Sandown Stakes
Where Sandown Racecourse – 591-659 Princes Hwy, Springvale VIC 3171
When Saturday, November 14, 2020 | 2:30pm AEDT | Race 5
Prizemoney $160,000
Distance 1500m
Status Group 3
Race Conditions Quality handicap
2019 Winner Gold Fields – 55.5kg (6) | Jockey: Stephen Baster | Trainer: Logan McGill

2020 Sandown Stakes racing tips

The Group 3 Sandown Stakes marks halfway for the blockbuster 10-race card on the Hillside track this Saturday afternoon. A small field of seven has been accepted, but the standard of the field is nothing to turn your nose up at. The favourite, Kenya, has come off a massive win at Mornington and plummets in the weights, but this will be his first crack at a black-type event.

Junipal is looking to turn the tables on the top weight, Buffalo River, who beat him home in the Toorak Handicap a month ago. Off the freshen up, the Maher & Eustace gelding will be hard to beat if he can bring the form he displayed prior to his ninth-place finish in the Toorak. With the likes of Kenya and Buffalo River set to provide a genuine tempo, a quiet run in transit could see Junipal be too strong for the two market fancies to hold out.

On his day, Buffalo River would be hard to get past in an event like this. He had his colours lowered in the Cantala Stakes on Derby Day and seemingly had no excuses for such a poor performance. He beat home our top elect, however, and is arguably the class runner in the field. He’ll be pressured early for the leading position by the race favourite, but he has shown in the past he can take a sit off the speed and still go on to win.

Every time punters go to rule a line through Iconoclasm, he comes out in his next start and shows what he is capable of. He won on Manikato Stakes Night, defeating the heavily backed So Si Bon in the process, and gets half a kilogram off his back from that effort. Damian Lane has formed a formidable relationship with the 6YO, as they are yet to run outside of the quinella when paired up. Iconoclasm is drawn to do no work and looks to be a genuine knockout hope.

Best bets for Sandown Stakes 2020

$100 Betting Strategy
$100 win: Junipal

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