Norton trainer Julie Camacho, who saddled her first winner of the new Flat season when Royal Melbourne landed an 11-1 success at Catterick yesterday, can double her score tomorrow.

Camacho sends Rio Riva to Wolverhampton and Paul Hanagan's mount is napped to open his account in the Betfred Maiden Stakes.

Placed in all his three starts to date, Rio Riva looks a winner waiting to happen, and there was much to like about his latest effort at Doncaster's Lincoln meeting where he finished a very creditable third in maiden company.

Opportunity is fancied to come knocking for this promising three-year-old tomorrow.

Kevin Ryan has his horses in good form and the Hambleton trainer can win the Betfred Handicap with Louisiade.

This ex-Tim Easterby inmate scored over this course and distance at the beginning of the month, leaving the impression there will be more races to be won with him. Neil Callan has the mount.

Sandown hosts the first of two days of mixed racing, some useful Flat races sitting alongside the final main action of the jumping campaign, highlighted by Saturday's Betfred Gold Cup.

It would be nice to see former champion Rooster Booster win tomorrow's £50,000 Concept Hurdle, this popular grey having had a largely frustrating campaign overall in his continued search for success at the highest level.

Unsuited by the muddling gallop in his latest race at Aintree, where he finished fifth, the 11-year-old deserves one last chance of glory tomorrow before he embarks on his deserved summer holidays. Richard Johnson, as usual, has the mount.

Tony McCoy, with another jockeys' championship in the bag, can make his presence felt during the afternoon. The quirky but talented Tikram can benefit from McCoy's expertise in the Betfred '500 Shops Nationwide' Handicap Chase, while the high-class Translucid, trained in Ger-many by the shrewd Christian Von Der Recke, has every chance of ending a profitable season in style in the Betfred Novices' Handicap Chase.

The £50,000 Betfred Classic Trial is the best of tomorrow's Flat action and there is plenty to like about the chances of Fracas, trained in Ireland by David Wachman.

An impressive winner at Leopardstown 12 days ago, Fracas looks a horse with a bright future and he bids to provide Wachman with another winner in Britain. Jamie Spencer has the mount.

Updated: 11:18 Thursday, April 21, 2005