Andy Holding's Monday Racing Tips

CRACK ON CORRIE (best price 9-2) was a creditable third in this corresponding race last year and following an encouraging return to form at Clonmel last time out, the daughter of Oscar has a decent chance of going two places better.

Using the very same race at the Powerstown Park venue twelve months ago before she came here, Willie Austin’s mare looked dangerous at the second last in that competitive affair 11 days ago, but once swept aside by the strong-finishing Costalita, she could only find the one-pace on the run-in. That said, it still has to go down as a fair effort by the nine-year-old considering she’d been off the track for 242 days and, hailing from a yard who had two nice winners at Tramore last week, she looks poised to keep the good run of the stable going in the right direction.

UNCLE SWAYZE (NAP) (best price 13-8) caught the eye in a major way on his debut at Kempton and, with expected improvement to come from that initial outing, Ralph Beckett’s gelding should turn out to be a more potent threat in this similar heat.

Sent off at 14-1 on his opening bow at the Surrey venue, the son of Dandy Man not only had to defy his weakness in the market, his stall position on the wing in 14 created even more cause for concern. To add insult to injury, he also received a hefty bump leaving the stalls as the horse drawn next to him veered out to his left, so right from the get-go, he was on the back foot. To finish off his race was well as he did from where he was at halfway, therefore, is testimony to his ability and, looking for all the world as though further than a mile will help him no end in future, this cheap purchase can justify that theory at the second time of asking.