MOLSUM, runner-up in both his races this season, can make it third time lucky at Leicester tomorrow.

The five-year-old contests the Birch Handicap Hurdle and has excellent prospects of opening his winning account.

Molsum certainly comes from a stable in form. His Peterborough trainer Pam Sly completed a treble at Towcester last Saturday, the first time in her 23 year career that she has managed to saddle three winners on the same programme.

Molsum, who started this season by chasing home the smart Who Am I at Towcester last month, subsequently finished second to World Express over this course and distance three weeks ago.

A winner here last term, Molsum has the look of a victor tomorrow and, with Warren Marston in the saddle, he can gain an overdue success.

Debt Of Honor is napped to land the spoils in the Sycamore Handicap Chase. From the in-form Richard Lee stable, Richard Johnson's mount was beaten seven lengths into second by Church Law over this course and distance last month.

That was only Debt Of Honor's second outing of the campaign, and the chances are that he will have benefited enormously. He merits close attention.

Settrington trainer John Quinn has booked Adrian Maguire to partner Eriny in the Oak Handicap Hurdle and the hint should be taken.

Eriny bounced back to form at Hexham a fortnight ago under Lorcan Wyer when a five lengths winner from Wicklow Way. He has more on his place here, but with Maguire in the saddle, the local gelding should make a bold bid.

Everything's Rosy just about sums up the current form of trainer Venetia Williams' horses, and this six-year-old has an excellent chance of adding her name to the stable's fast-growing scoresheet in the Ash Mares Only Novices' Hurdle.

This will be the first time Everything's Rosy has competed over hurdles, but her two placed efforts in bumpers confirms her to be a performer of some potential and a bold show is anticipated.

Norman Williamson, who recently won the Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup for Williams on Teeton Mill, takes the mount.

Tomorrow's Hexham meeting hinges on a precautionary inspection this afternoon. There was frost in the ground yesterday, but temperatures have picked up.

Welburn trainer Bob Woodhouse will want the meeting to go ahead as he has a good chance of winning the Federation Brewery Special Ale Amateur Riders' Handicap Hurdle with Boston Man.

Boston Man, a quirky character, was a wide-margin winner at Carlisle on his latest start, a confidence-restorer which will not have been wasted on him. Ed Babington, attached to Tim Easterby's yard, again has the mount tomorrow.

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