SWITCH HITTER is tipped to excel at the first attempt over fences in the Sky Sports Racing Novices' Limited Handicap Chase (2.52).
Hailing from the yard of 12-times champion trainer Paul Nicholls, the six-year-old bids to get off the mark at Hereford.
Named after a baseball player who bats both right-handed and left-handed, Switch Hitter has actually done his winning at tracks taking the first-named configuration.
So Hereford fits the bill, as does his Kempton win from the prolific Breffniboy and promising Nightboattoclyro.
Already a point-to-point winner, Switch Hitter will have no problem with the switch to the bigger obstacles and he can see off recent course scorer No Anxiety.
Tuesday tips
HEREFORD
12.52 LE CHIFFRE D’OR
1.22 MARBLE MOON
1.52 STEINKRAUS
2.22 NEVILLE’S CROSS
2.52 SWITCH HITTER (NAP)
3.25 MISS M
HUNTINGDON
12.30 CHOSEN PORT
1.00 RAFFERTY
1.30 TAKE IT EASY (NB)
2.00 KILFILUM CROSS
2.30 BILLY RAY
3.00 SALLEY GARDENS
3.30 ALAZWAR
LINGFIELD
1.07 HARA KIRI
1.37 DOLPHIN SQUARE
2.07 LANSPARK
2.37 FLAGRANT DELITIEP
3.07 SIROCO JO
3.37 ALKOPOP
NEWCASTLE
3.45 LORD TORRANAGA
4.20 HOOKED ON YOU
4.55 AZURE BLUE
5.30 INSTINCTION
6.00 EY UP ITS THE BOSS
6.30 TEFNUT
7.00 TAMASKA
7.30 GORGEOUS GENERAL
