Wednesday Racing Tips from Steve Ryder

Tawaazon holds strong claims of completing a hat-trick but a 7lb penalty will make things more difficult and preference instead goes to the Michael Mulvany trained Seeingisbelieving (best priced at 5/1) who ran well to finish 2nd on his reappearance on Saturday. The four-year-old had a disappointing end to last season but nearly capitalised off a mark of 63 at the Curragh four days ago.

Seeingisbelieving was only beaten ½ length at the finish by Queen’s Pardon and the handicapper has raised him 4lbs for that effort. He instead runs here off the same mark of 63 meaning that he is 4lbs “well in” and he should run well with five places on offer.

The Tony Martin trained Secret Rock (best priced at 13/2) had previously shown very little in his career to date until winning at Wexford over hurdles in March. His best previous performance had come on debut when 7th beaten 8 ¾ lengths at Limerick before being beaten a long way on his three starts over hurdles. The four-year-old was well supported for a maiden hurdle last time and won at a price of 7/1 where he has been given an opening handicap mark of 102.

Secret Rock runs here back on the flat off a mark of 55 which makes him extremely well handicapped and he should prove hard to beat under Ben Coen with a first-time tongue tie added.

This looks a weak 0-100 handicap and I expect Artic Row (best priced at 11/10) to follow up his recent success. The lightly raced six-year-old had previously finished well beaten in his three starts over hurdles but made a winning handicap debut last time at Ayr off an opening mark of 89.

Artic Rock justified favouritism that day by a length in a first time tongue tie and he should prove hard to beat off only a 4lb higher mark in this race.