BAY OF PLENTY

LAURENS BAY (2.20, nap) can cement his position as a cracking novice chase prospect at Sandown today.

- by JASON HEAVEY RACING EDITOR AND CHIEF TIPSTER

Jamie Snowden’s (below) massive six-year-old cruised home on his fencing bow at Uttoxeter in October.

He tackles sterner opposition in the Grade Two Betfair Esher Novices’ Chase - and his three rivals all have decent claims of their own.

Laurens Bay loves soft ground and hopefully there will have been enough of the wet stuff for him to use his stamina.

He displayed that staying prowess when coming from another parish to win the EBF Final in March at today’s track.