Andy Newton with the stats for Sandown finale

The end of April sees the curtain down on another jumps season and it’s the bet365 Gold Cup meeting at Sandown, run on Saturday the 24th, that brings the hedge-hopping action to a close.Like all the big races in April last year, this was another that was lost to Covid, with the last winner in 2019 being the Alan King-trained 7-year-old Talkischeap.Run over a trip of 3m5f, it’s another contest for the stayers, while the older readers out there will still probably call the race ‘The Whitbread’, who sponsored the c...