BATOCCHI (6.30, nap) can continue his remarkable run with a fourth victory in a row at Southwell on Tuesday.
The four-year-old, trained by Rebecca Menzies, has not been out of the first two in his last three races, winning the last three, all in the hands of Cam Hardie.
And he produced a career best to win a nine-runner mile-and-half handicap at this course early this month, gamely holding off Maharashtra by half a length.
A 4lb rise for that may still underestimate Batocchi, again with Hardie on board, as he steps up to a mile and three-quarters for the first time in the betyourway At Betway Handicap
At Taunton, the in-form Philip Hobbs stable can strike with HONESTYLYNTRUFULLY (1.20, nb).
The six-year-old showed huge improvement on her previous hurdle runs when a staying-on second to Global Wonder on her handicap debut over two miles at Plumpton last month.
My selection is expected to relish the further three furlongs of Tuesday's trip and, with more improvement likely on just her seventh start, she looks the pick in the Anshin Security Conditional Jockeys' Handicap Hurdle.
Tuesday tips
MARKET RASEN
1.00 FLEURMAN
1.35 DESARAY GIRL
2.10 ILE DE JERSEY
2.45 PRESUMING ED
3.20 RADETZKY MARCH
3.55 JESSIE LIGHTFOOT
4.30 SPANISH PRESENT
SOUTHWELL
5.00 LOUIS TREIZE
5.30 DESERT LIME
6.00 DIGITAL
6.30 BATOCCHI (NAP)
7.00 SID'S ANNIE
7.30 LADY LOU
8.00 GIDWA
TAUNTON
1.20 HONESTLYNTRUFULLY (NB)
1.55 LADY ADARE
2.30 JEREMY THE JINN
3.05 PREMIUMACCESS
3.40 AJERO
4.15 QUEEN OF THE COURT
4.50 FLYING NUN
NAVAN
1.10 MUSIC OF TARA
1.45 ROCK ON CASSIE
2.20 DARVER STR
2.55 UKNOWCARTY
3.30 SMASH THE LAMP
4.05 FAROUK D'ALENE
4.40 ALL CLASS
5.15 MADMANSGAME
