CLASSY DAME is the lady to have on your side in the Get Your Ladbrokes Daily Odds Boost Handicap (4.05) at Lingfield Park.
Robert Eddery’s daughter of Belardo draw a blank in seven starts in 2020, but very nearly got this year off to the perfect start with a neck defeat at Wolverhampton on January 5.
A month later, Classy Dame - ridden for the first time by today’s jockey Adam Kirby - went one better, with a half-length defeat of Artisan Bleu over course and distance.
A 3lb rise looks manageable for the top weight, who is taken to follow up.
At Southwell, REQUINTO DAWN is expected to collect for the fourth time in five starts by capturing #betyourway At Betway Handicap (6.45).
The Richard Fahey six-year-old has a 5lb penalty to carry for a four-and-a-quarter-length score over course and distance last Friday - and that may not be enough to stop him from going in again.
After a good second at Plumpton 25 days ago, KAP AUTEUIL has an excellent chance of a first career success in Fakenham’s Sculthorpe Novices' Handicap Chase (2.42).
Champion jockey Brian Hughes gets the leg up on Borders National casualty DUC DE GRISSAY for the first time, and that points to the Sandy Thomson trainee’s chance in the Edinburgh Gin Chase (2.50).
Today's racing tips
LINGFIELD PARK
12.30 DUTUGAMUMU
1.00 MOUNT MAYON
1.30 NORTONTHORPE BOY
2.00 BIG IMPRESSION
2.30 SINNDARELLA
3.00 ARCTIC SEA
3.30 BEAT THE BREEZE
4.05 CLASSY DAME (NAP)
KELSO
1.20 MALPAS
1.50 PROTEKTORAT
2.20 OLIVER’S ISLAND
2.50 DUC DE GRISSAY
3.20 SERIOUS EGO
3.50 ECLAIR D’AINAY
4.22 TANGO DE JUILLEY
4.52 ARTHUR’S SEAT
FAKENHAM
1.42 BLAME THE GAME
2.12 DEVIOUS DICKS DAME
2.42 KAP AUTEUIL
3.12 CAPTAIN MORGS
3.42 FIRE AWAY
4.15 ARGOT
4.45 TWISTEDFIRESTARTER
SOUTHWELL
5.15 ELIXSOFT
5.45 GEOGRAPHY TEACHER
6.15 TRIBUTO
6.45 REQUINTO DAWN (NB)
7.15 DE BRUYNE HORSE
7.45 SHOOT TO WIN
8.15 BLOWING DIXIE
DOUBLE: CLASSY DAME and REQUINTO DAWN
