Ben Linfoot: Value bet

Ben Linfoot seeks out the value in the William Hill Lincoln at Doncaster.

Dance to Tate's tune in Lincoln

The William Hill Lincoln has been won by well-backed favourites in the last two years and plenty of punters will be hoping Taqleed can land a hat-trick for the jollies at Doncaster on Saturday.

His credentials are rock solid.

He's a lightly-raced, lightly-weighted, potentially very smart performer who won a handicap off a 10lb lower mark very easily at Newmarket last August, before running creditably in the Cambridgeshire.

Trainer John Gosden won the race with Expresso Star in 2009 and Taqleed has a similar profile to him, while the money for him this week has to be a positive.

If you haven't backed him already, perhaps you'll be tempted by the 4/1 but as he forms the market there has got to be some each-way value to be had and I'm keen on one at 10 times the price.

Prince Of Dance is the horse at 40/1 and I can't resist having an each-way nibble at those odds as I feel he's been overlooked by the layers.

This five-year-old son of Danehill Dancer didn't start racing until he was three but he made a flying start to his career, winning his first three races including a listed contest at Newmarket at the back end of 2009.

He paid for that success, as a rating of 108 meant he had to ply his trade in group company. Indeed, he chased home Paco Boy on his first two starts last year.

A change of scenery failed to reignite the fires when he moved to Jeremy Gask's, but there was a lot to like about his final start for the Wiltshire handler at Doncaster last October.

Running over an inadequate six furlongs off a mark of 98 he finished among some very good sprint handicappers and just five lengths off the winner Mac's Power.

That was only his second handicap start - his first was a win over a mile at Salisbury off a rating of 94 - the same mark he races off on Town Moor on Saturday.

With this being just his 11th career start, and third start in a handicap, he's seriously unexposed, especially over the trip in a handicap.

He's only had one run for Tadcaster handler Tom Tate and that was, on the face of it, admittedly a poor effort in the Lincoln Trial at Wolverhampton on March 12.

However, I'm happy to overlook it as it was his first go on the all-weather and he's likely to have needed the run - stablemate Suits Me was 10 lengths behind him that day but went on to finish fourth in the Winter Derby.

At 40/1 he's capable of out-running his odds in a big way and I feel he's got a very good chance of making the frame.

Recommended bets:
0.5pts e.w Prince Of Dance in the Lincoln at 40/1 (general)