Racing by Tom O'Ryan

Lucky Archer, winner of both his races this season, can hit the bullseye at Carlisle tomorrow by completing a hat-trick in the £10,000 Crowther Homes Carlisle Bell Handicap.

The five-year-old, originally trained by Clive Brittain at Newmarket, is now with Chepstow-based Milton Bradley, a man with an uncanny knack of finding the key to revitalising previously disappointing horses.

Lucky Archer got off the mark this season with a long-priced success in an apprentices' race at Nottingham and promptly followed-up in good style under Walter Swinburn at Yarmouth.

Always travelling strongly, the gelding went to the front one and a half furlongs from the finish and Swinburn only needed to keep him up to his work to draw three lengths clear of Daintree in the closing stages.

Lucky Archer, an 11-4 winning nap for this column at Yarmouth, is awarded the Nap vote again tomorrow.

He has more on his plate than before, but is a most progressive horse and he promises to give Kevin Darley a fine ride.

Jason Weaver is riding at the top of his form and Young Dalesman should provide him with yet another winner in the Klockner Moeller Maiden Handicap.

Andy Streeter's stayer has run two creditable races this season, not least at Pontefract nine days ago when he finished fifth to Arisaig in the mud at Pontefract, where he encountered the worst of the ground. He should not be deserted now, especially in this modest event.

Milton Bradley and Kevin Darley, the combination responsible for tomorrow's Nap selection Lucky Archer, can initiate a double with Flying Pennant in the Edmundson Electrical Handicap.

The five-year0old struck winning form at Chepstow recently when beating Huntswood in comfortable style. He looks capable of obliging again.

Tancred Times should not be overlooked in the C G Truck Handicap.

David Barker's charge appreciated the return to sprinting at Thirsk last week when finishing fourth in a lady amateur riders' race where she made a bold bid to make all the running.

With professional assistance tomorrow, and the likelihood of a slightly more patient ride, Tancred Times has a winning chance.

Twelve months ago Sir Mark Prescott and George Duffield teamed-up to win the Crowther Homes Maiden Stakes with newcomer Eloquent, who went on to become a high-class juvenile.

Tomorrow, the shrewd Newmarket duo are represented by Bemuse, another debutant who is fancied to make her first appearance in public a winning one.

At Salisbury the £10,000 Gibbs Mew Bibury Cup Handicap looks a good opportunity for the progressive Lucrezia to lift a sizeable prize.

Sir Michael Stoute's lightly-raced filly got off the mark over this trip at Chepstow recently when beating Bounteous by five lengths. She looks capable of better.

Also worth watching out for are the in-form Silk St John (3.10) and the highly-regarded Doomna (3.40).

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