FREAK Occurence, a winner at Redcar during the final week of the turf season, is still going strong and is fancied to complete a hat-trick of successes at Lingfield tomorrow.

Trained by Emma Lavelle, a canny operator on the Flat and particularly over jumps, Freak Occurrence followed up his Redcar win with a victory over this course and distance recently.

The progressive juvenile scored in pleasing style by one and a half lengths from Chubbes, the favourite, leaving the impression there was even more to come.

The Bet Direct Nursery, over the same distance of a mile, is his target tomorrow and another victory looks likely.

Gig Harbor can complete a double for Lavelle in the Littlewoods Bet Direct Showcase Handicap.

A decent performer, Gig Harbor finished a respectable second to High Point on this course recently and can go one better tomorrow over a slightly shorter trip.

Phrenologist, who opened his winning acccount recently at Lingfield, can supplement that success by winning the first division of the Chris Weatherly Retirement Classified Stakes.

James Fanshawe's gelding was having only his third start when beating Salon Prive by a neck on his latest outing. There is probably still more to come from Dane O'Neill's mount, who is awarded my Nap vote.

Former Malton trainer Colin Tinkler has recently returned from a stint in Spain to train for owner George Ward in Berkshire.

Tinkler, a former top National Hunt jockey, has had a winner and a second from his first few runners, and Tropical Coral gives him chance of another success in division two of the allweather-racing.com Handicap.

Although he failed to cut much ice on his latest start on this track, Tropical Coral, a Kempton winner back in August, remains a horse of interest.

The Fred Gibson Memorial Amateur Riders' Handicap looks a good opportunity for Raheel to gain compensation for a recent narrow defeat at Lingfield.

The gelding was beaten only a head by Decelerate on his latest start and would not need to improve much to promote himself into a winner.

Over the sticks at Newton Abbot, Dealer's Choice deserves attention in the Tote Exacta Handicap Hurdle.

Victoria Roberts' gelding, a previous course winner, returns from an absence but is expected to be fit enough to do himself justice in this two and threequarter miles miles.

Tomorrow's tips:

LINGFIELD

12.00 Phrenologist (Nap), 12.30 Trousers, 1.00 Freak Occurence, 1.30 I Wish, 2.00 Gig Habor, 2.30 Intruiging Glimpse, 3.00 Tropical Coral, 3.30 Raheel.

NEWTON ABBOT

1.20 L'Ange Au Ciel, 1.50 Barton Sands, 2.20 Belski, 2.50 Dealer's Choice, 3.20 Jolly Giant, 3.50 Gold Again.

Tomorrow's other meeting is at Hereford.

Tom O'Ryan's Nap for this afternoon's racing was: Ambersong (3.40 at Wolverhampton).

Updated: 12:24 Monday, December 01, 2003