ALL signs point to Musselburgh tomorrow for the sole Flat action in Great Britain on Easter Sunday and Bryan Smart could look extra-smart after the only juvenile event on the card.

Two-year-old races, especially at this early stage of the season, tend to be mostly about pedigree, rumour, reputation and trainers particularly adept at producing first-time out winners.

And Guertino seems to fit nicely into those categories. A son of the exceptionally speedy and talented Choisir, he has been the subject of some favourable whispers from the Hambleton yard of Smart, who is a dab hand with juveniles, as he proved last season when scoring at Royal Ascot with Helvellyn, who was winning his third race off the reel.

It is anyone's guess at this stage whether Guertino will prove good enough to go to Royal Ascot in June, but it would be no surprise to see this speedily-bred newcomer make a winning debut. Paul Eddery takes the mount.

Middleham trainer Karl Burke and Mark Johnston (pictured left) are fancied to pick-off Musselburgh's two other maiden races.

Burke saddles nap selection Gazboolou in the totequadpot Maiden over seven furlongs and Pat Cosgrave's mount should prove hard to beat.

Having shown plenty of promise as a juvenile last season, when he ran up a sequence of placed efforts, Gazboolou has excellent prospects of gaining a deserved success here on his comeback outing, probably at the main expense of Johnson's newcomer Hubble Bubble.

Johnston, though, should win the toteexacta Maiden Stakes with Old Etonian.

Well regarded in the Johnston camp, this three-year-old failed by a neck to make a winning debut at Lingfield a couple of weeks ago. With that experience under his belt, he should make a bold bid.

The feature race on the card is the £20,000 totesport.com Musselburgh Gold Cup, in which Global Strategy will be a popular choice.

Rae Guest's four-year-old could hardly be in better form, having rattled-up a hat-trick of all-weather wins since the turn of the year.

Successful over tomorrow's distance of one mile and three-quarters at Southwell last time, Global Strategy will lack nothing in staying power and, provided he can transfer his form to turf, he should prove a tough horse to beat.

Stan Moore has his string in good heart and the Lambourn trainer has good prospects of winning the totesportcasino.com Handicap with Dualagi.

The three-year-old got off the mark at his second attempt at Lingfield last month and does not look overburdened in this, his first handicap, off a rating of 63.

At Towcester, watch out for Magnetic Pole, who started his racing career owned and bred by the Queen, and is now a jumper doing the rounds for Ben Case.

But the gelding is in good form at present, and should make his presence felt in the Kevin Kenna 60th Birthday Novices' Handicap Chase.

At Plumpton, Bally Rainey is selected to land the totesport.com Handicap Chase.

Racing selections
Tomorrow

Musselburgh
2.20 Guertino, 2.50 Regent's Secret, 3.20 Gazboolou (NAP), 3.50 Global Strategy, 4.20 Old Etonian, 4.50 Blazing Heights, 5.20 Dualagi.

Towcester
2.10 Corum, 2.40 Glen Thyne, 3.10 Lady Suffragette, 3.40 Magnetic Pole, 4.10 Im Spartacus, 4.40 Persian Hero, 5.10 Colonel Potter.

Plumpton
2.30 Tavalu, 3.00 Seraph, 3.30 Grouse Moor, 4.00 Domenico, 4.30 Back In Business, 5.00 Bally Rainey, 5.30 Classic Role.

Today's meetings: Carlisle, Haydock, Newton Abbot (all National Hunt), Kempton (all-weather Flat).