Frankie Dettori, who had to settle for third prize on Ed Dunlop's Newmarket raider Ouija Board in the prestigious Queen Elizabeth ll Cup in Hong Kong on Saturday night, faces a diet of more bread-and-butter fare at Windsor this evening.
But Britain's ultra-popular jockey is fancied to complete a double aboard Heaven Sent and Red Rocks.
Trained by Sir Michael Stoute for Cheveley Park Stud, the former showed well in his two outings last season at Warwick and Newmarket. He looks the type to come into his own this term.
The Neil Howard 50th Birthday Celebration Maiden Stakes looks an ideal starting-point for Heaven Sent to begin his three-year-old campaign.
Red Rocks, trained by Brian Meehan, can also score for Dettori in the Reed And Mackay Maiden Stakes.
Placed in two of his three starts as a juvenile last year, Red Rocks would only need to reproduce that level of form to open his account tonight, and, with Dettori in the saddle, he is sure to be a popular fancy for punters.
The nap vote is awarded to Tower Hill in the concluding Come Racing Again Bank Holiday Monday Handicap over a distance of just short of a mile and a half.
Trained by Michael Jarvis, who has made his usual brisk start to the season, Tower Hill showed definite signs of promise in three runs last season, two of which were on Wolverhampton's Polytrack circuit.
Duly qualified for a handicap mark, Tower Hill looks fairly treated for a horse with potential for improvement now that he steps-up in distance. With Philip Robinson in the saddle, he is napped to open his winning account in this ordinary event.
Over the sticks at Taunton this evening, Tony McCoy could be worth following.
The champion jockey looks to have good prospects of landing the opening novices' hurdle aboard Paro, trained by his former boss Martin Pipe, while half-and-hour later in the beginners' chase, he teams-up with Predicament, trained by Jonjo O'Neill, and another horse with a sound chance.
Paul Nicholls may have come within a whisker of landing Saturday's Scottish Grand National - for the second successive year - with Ladalko, but the champion jumps trainer-elect can go one better with East Lawyer in the Setsquare Recruitment Handicap Chase.
Tom O'Ryan's selections for tonight's race meetings
Windsor: 7-00 Heaven Sent, 7-30 Red Rocks, 8-00 Tower Hill (NAP)
Taunton: 5-15 Paro, 5-45 Predicament, 6-45 East Lawyer
Updated: 10:32 Monday, April 24, 2006
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