5:00 Bath Tips

This horse is a course-and-distance winner. It has also won a couple of times over hurdles in the spring and has won off higher marks on the flat. It should go close tonight.

Abando showed a bit of promise last time out. If this former German Derby runner begins to find his feet on these shores, he could be winning soon.

Gelded son of Sir Percy & Luisa Calderon ( Dam's sire Nayef ) who was last seen at Newbury 21 days ago where finishing 8th/15 that being his return run after a 171 day break and is most certainly entitled to strip fitter with that run under his belt currently operating on a handy mark of 72 D M Loughnane's inmate looks poised to strike especially having found a suitable class 5 handicap to engage in with his favoured gallop very well likely to be at his disposal given the horses enrolled to run here which will play extremely well into his strengths here at the Bath turf track with ground conditions also ideal worth noting he is now operating 2lb below his last winning mark here and has also won on this same mark before having also won on marks of 75 and 80 in the past with plenty more creditable performances on higher marks than to boost jockey Rob Hornby takes the ride and can give Sir Percy a promising ride here at Bath must enter calculations