You should never be afraid of backing more than one horse in a race particularly when a situation arises where you have two horses closely matched and they are some distance clear of their rivals.


A case in point is the 1.50 at Ascot on Saturday where TESSANOORA and ROSITA BAY should fight out the finish.

 

Betterbet.com make TESSANOORA a 5/2 chance with ROSITA BAY at 9/2 – so you are effectively backing an 11/10 shot that one of them will win the race.

 

Both are clearly the form picks and TESSANOORA’s trainer, Nicky Henderson is enjoying a purple patch of form at the moment with 10 winners from his last 24 runners.

 

ROSITA BAY was pulled up when 6/4 favourite at Ludlow but has bounced back with wins at Plumpton and Taunton and is chasing the hat-trick on Saturday.