Timeform UK SmartPlays / Timeform / 24 March 2012 /

Timeform give you their best Saturday SmartPlays, with two of them coming at Lingfield and the other at Kelso...

The first of today's SmartPlays comes in Lingfield's Listed Hever Stakes (14:55) over five furlongs. Oasis Dancer and Noble Storm head the market at the time of writing, but it's worth taking them on with the reappearing Medicean Man. The winner of a pair of good-quality Ascot handicaps last summer, Jeremy Gask's Medicean Man has the form to score at this level and is still unexposed on polytrack, albeit raced only at Wolverhampton so far, where he's yet to finish out of the first two from three starts. A strong-travelling sort, he strikes as the type to take well to the demands of Lingfield and his record fresh (won on reappearance in 2010 and a good second last year) is another positive.

We head north for the second selection, for Kelso's 2m1f Handicap Chase (15:30). Several of the field are best suited by being ridden positively, so there shouldn't be any shortage of pace, and that ought to suit the keen-going Freddie Brown, who is fancied to go one better than his recent second place finish over C&D. The George Charlton-trained 8-y-o has finished in the frame in four of his five starts this season and found only the prolific Red Tanber too good last time. A repeat of that latest effort will be good enough for him to win today, but there's every chance Freddie Brown has even more to offer, with this just his fourth start over fences and, at [5.1], he looks overpriced.

The best bet of the day comes in the mile handicap at Lingfield at 16:00, where George Guru has to be backed. Although he's a 5-y-o, he's in only his second season of racing and has been nothing but progressive so far, winning at Lingfield in October and Kempton in February, before catching the eye in defeat over today's C&D last time. In fact, George Guru could hardly have shaped any better in coming from so far off the pace as he did last time, dropped out, finishing fast and leaving the impression he's a sure-fire future winner. There isn't much obvious pace in the race again, but lessons will hopefully have been learned from that contest and, even at [2.9], George Guru looks a really good bet.

Timeform SmartPlays
Back Medicean Man @ [6.0] in the 14:55 at Lingfield
Back Freddie Brown @ [5.1] in the 15:30 at Kelso
Back George Guru @ [2.94] in the 16:00 at Lingfield
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