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Yahoo Sport UK’s horse racing Lucky 15 – Sunday’s top selections

Yahoo Sport UK has teamed up with Bet4Causes to bring you a preview of the day’s British racing – and The Night Hawk marks your card.

Each day Bet4Causes will provide you with a preview of the day’s racing, offering what the experts feel will be the value bets of the day.

Take a look at our Lucky 15 selections (four singles, six doubles, four trebles and a four-fold) for the British meetings on Sunday, July 9, 2016.

LUCKY 15 SELECTIONS

KNOCKLAYDE SNO CAT (Perth 2.00) has proven expensive to follow and is still a maiden after 15 starts. However, trainer Stuart Crawford looks to have found a soft race for the seven-year-old mare, who has finished runner-up on her last two starts in maiden hurdles at Cartmel and Perth. She was short-headed over course and today’s 2m4f distance last time but she remains in good heart.

PERSPICACE (Stratford 3.25) may well be able to complete a hat-trick for David Pipe in the 2m handicap hurdle. The five-year-old won over 2m4f at Worcester and then over today’s trip at Uttoxeter in May. While he had his colours lowered at Chester a couple of weeks ago, that was in a Flat handicap and the return to this sphere looks the obvious route to go. He is up 7lb to a mark of 125 but continues to improve.

UN BEAU ROMAN (Stratford 4.30) has a fair chance of causing something of an upset in a decent 2m1f handicap chase. Paul Henderson’s eight-year-old has been largely hit and miss throughout his career. He popped up at 20/1 when taking a 2m2f Kempton handicap Chase in January off a mark 1lb higher than he does today but has generally been campaigned over further since. The drop in trip today should help.

SONNEOFPRESENTING (Perth 3.05) only went up 3lb for his win at Southwell over hurdles in early June, but he looked every inch a chaser in the making, so duly attracted support on his chasing debut at the same course last time. However, he did not appear to handle the deep ground over 2.4f and was second to Steps And Stairs. There is a question mark over the 2m7f trip today for Kin Bailey’s representative, but he should still have come on a bit for the experience.

OTHER SELECTIONS

PERTH: 2.00 KNOCKLAYDE SNO CAT (NAP), 2.30 Baysbrown, 3.05 Sonneofpresenting, 3.40 Tajseer, 4.10 Le Grand Chene, 4.45 Marcus Antonius, 5.20 Tyrrell’s Success

SOUTHWELL: 2.10 Con Forza, 2.40 Swansea Mile, 3.15 Rocky Two, 3.50 River Of Intrigue, 4.20 Viva Rafa, 4.55 Amber Flush, 5.30 Unknown Legend, 6.00 Book At Bedtime

STRATFORD: 2.20 Invocation, 2.50 Brave Encounter, 3.25 Perspicace (nb), 4.00 On Alberts Head, 4.30 Un Beau Roman, 5.05 Avispa, 5.40 Deserter, 6.10 Distant Sound

FAIRYHOUSE: 2.05 Mayleaf Shine, 2.35 Falcao, 3.10 Raymonda, 3.45 King Of Saxony, 4.15 Special Focus, 4.50 Shamar, 5.25 Cook Islands

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