Rachel Candelora's top tips for Wednesday: Story can have happy ending

I am really looking forward to racing this weekend as it starts off fun before turning to serious stuff.

On Friday night, I am heading to Les Landes Racecourse on the island of Jersey where they are staging their Champion Hurdle meeting and, hopefully, Sam Twiston-Davies can finally bag a Champion Hurdle on the Neil Mulholland-trained Mrs Burbidge.

Saturday brings the return of Enable in what could be a very interesting Coral-Eclipse at Sandown, while stateside Aidan O’Brien will be mob-handed in the $1,000,000 Grade One Belmont Derby with Cape of Good Hope and Blenheim Palace.

There will be four meetings live on Racing TV throughout Wednesday with Musselburgh and Thirsk whetting the appetite for Kempton and day one of the Bellewstown July Festival in the evening.

A four-time winner on the flat and five-time winner over hurdles, this looks an ideal opportunity for Innocent Touch to get off the mark over fences at just his second attempt.

This does not look anywhere near as strong a novice Chase than the one in which he finished third of four on his chasing debut at Hexham a week and a half ago, and it is good to see that Richard Johnson now gets back aboard him having ridden him to four of his five victories over hurdles.

This daughter of Dutch Art was too green to do herself justice on debut at Newmarket, but she took a big step forward on her second start last week at Newbury where she made most of the running before the Godolphin-owned winner, Picture Frame, ran past her, and while the winner went clear, Willa was pulling away from the rest of the field.

She should definitely take another step forward for that and a switch to all-weather should suit as her dam, Holberg Suite, won on an artificial surface.

Richard Hannon two-year-old’s tend to improve with every start, as was the case in 2017 when Billesdon Brook won this race on her fourth career start.

There are several nicely bred debutants in this race, however, they will have to produce a fair effort on debut to get past Willa based on her Newbury run.

“Confined” or “Time Restricted” races are common in the United States but are comparatively new here in the UK.

When seeing a race like this back home – basically for horses who have not won a race over a certain period – the best way to play them is to find a horse who has not had that many goes in the said period and therefore might still be progressive.

This appears to be the case with Peace Dreamer who is only having her third start of 2019.

She was a winner over course and distance last year and made a really pleasing comeback here when beaten just a short head.

She can be forgiven her disappointing run last time out as that came on the softest ground she has ever encountered.

Trained by “speed King” Robert Cowell, drawn inside and back on fast ground at Bath, this may be her day.

A Cheltenham Festival winner running at Kempton is not out of the ordinary over jumps, however, it is not something that we see every day on the flat.

Superb Story, who won the 2016 County Hurdle, is attempting to win his second race on the flat, and his first in Britain.

He made his debut for trainer Harry Fry, after a break of almost two and a half years, in June when he finished a really good second in a race won by Sassie who was given a huge lead and her rivals struggled to reach the deficit.

Superb Story finished best of the closers in the chasing pack, staying on strongly in the final furlong to grab second and was pulling away from the rest at the line.

He is now 6lb better off with Sassie and hopefully Jamie Spencer will not allow a similar race pace to play out although, on paper, it should not as there is quite a lot of pace on which will suit Superb Story down to the ground.