Andy Holding's Monday Racing Tips

TEASER (best price 5-2) has already proven that he’s well suited to sharp tracks such as today’s and he’s fancied to get back on track having dipped his bread against opposition much tougher than what he faces this afternoon.

Far from disgraced in a warm juvenile handicap at Ascot two starts ago, David Pipe’s gelding also performed quite well in another competitive affair at Haydock last time out, when he predictable faded having help set a strong pace. Back in a small field back at a track where he ran respectably on poached winter ground back in February, the son of Dansili should turn out to be a big player if they get the tactics right on him this time around.

The Tin Man is clearly going to be the focus of attention for many in his bid to kick-start his campaign in a race who took twelve months ago, but on the evidence of what we saw at Chelmsford last time, he won’t have things all his own way up against DREAM OF DREAMS (best price 7-2).

Frustratingly runner-up on three occasions last season, Sir Michael Stoute’s inmate failed to shine on his final start in the Group 1 Champions Sprint Stakes at Ascot, but he seemed to put the memories of t5hat modest effort well and truly behind him on his return to action 25 days ago. Held up off the back of solid fractions at the Essex venue, the five-year-old found a smart turn of foot in the home straight run down some useful sorts in a short space of time and that performance very much suggests that like many others attached to the same stable this season, he might well be improving with age.

Due to a slow start, FEARLESS WARRIOR (NAP) (best price 7-2) got himself into a position he could never get out of on his seasonal bow at Bath, but hopefully with a better break this afternoon, he can stamp his authority over today’s three rivals.

Useful and progressive as a juvenile, a game victory on the all-weather at Kempton pointed towards a colt very much going in the right direction and he rounded off the campaign with a gutsy effort in a well-run affair at Newmarket. Pitched into a hot three-year-old handicap on his return to the fray after 177 days off, Ralph Beckett’s chestnut stayed on resolutely enough in the closing stages to suggest he should be in a for a fine season in similar contests and with the front pair that day both going on to cover themselves with glory in two Classic trials subsequently, the son of Sea The Stars is fancied to take advantage of the drop from Class 2 to Class 4 company.