Horse racing tips: three for Lingfield from Dave Nevison

Our pundit and resident website tipster Dave Nevison picks out three on the all-weather given the current disruption to the domestic programme and hopes three will go close on the polytrack.

The all-weather failed to live up to its billing such was the amount of snow last weekend, but I would be pretty certain that racing will get the go ahead on Tuesday. There are eight winners to find on the card, but it is very much filling in the gaps before the good stuff over jumps this weekend including a brilliant Betfair Tingle Creek card from Sandown live on Racing TV.

2.05 Lingfield: Light Speed

I feel the handicapper might have been lenient in giving a mark of 80 for his handicap debut.

Despite being by former high-class juvenile Mehmas - who was best at six and seven furlongs - Light Speed seems to take after his mother’s side of the pedigree and seems to be improving as he goes up in trip. I feel these further two furlongs will not in any way worry him.

Andrew Balding’s three-year-old has progressed with each run and followed up his win in a modest maiden at Newcastle with a win under a penalty at Wolverhampton last time, where he was more impressive and beat runners from big-name yards.

Light Speed has to give weight away all round here, but this race doesn’t look to have any similarly progressive horses to beat and he will be a short price to win.

3.05 Lingfield: Kalamity Kitty

This very modest mare completed a roll of four straight victories back in the early summer of last year and has taken a while to return to any sort of form, but now that she has done so she finds herself on an attractive handicap mark.

Kalamity Kitty is lower in the weights than the final win of that sequence and is very closely weighted with the reopposing Fair Dinkum, who beat her 1 ¾ lengths last time and is now 2lbs worse off.

Oisin Murphy taking over for the first time aboard this tricky ride is never a bad thing and a wide draw is no issue given Kalamity Kitty will be dropped out nearly last early.

3.35 Lingfield: Maharajas Express

While he has struggled this season in handicaps, Maharajas Express has dropped more than a stone in the weights and now finds himself with a new and very promising trainer in Jack Jones.

It looks as though he was given far too high a mark after a win and a second from his two runs in novices at the back end of last year for Richard Spencer, and this drop now to the lowest grade he’s yet contested looks interesting.

Also of note is the fact that Jones reapplies cheekpieces for this stable debut which suggests that Maharajas Express is taking positive steps, and a glance through the trainer’s winners suggests that he is pretty good at knowing when to apply this particular headgear.