Today's Racing Tips: Charlie the Choice for Southwell success

• Side with Apiary to sting the layers

• Time to back in-form Digital

• Choice can claim compensation at Southwell

Dundalk, 14.30 - Back Apiary @ 5/23.50

The step up to a mile should be ideal for Apiary who can carry Harry Redknapp's colours to another success in this three-year-old handicap.

The Victor Ludorum filly hit the line strongly in a similar event before Christmas where she only failed by a head to overhaul Coincidental Glory following a spirited late charge.

She was eighth of the 13 runners in reaching 20 miles-per-hour that day and that modest start probably cost her with the winner topping that metric and third-home Pints In Peace second.

In the circumstances, Apiary probably did well to fight out the finish and she can go one better here.

Newcastle, 15.08 - Back Digital @ 11/82.38

Digital has won after breaks from the track of 10 and 11 days and he is backed to register an eighth career win and second course success in a very winnable handicap.

The selection was in front a long way out last time under Warren Fentiman and was only overhauled late in the race by Little Mi Mi, a horse he had cosily beaten a fortnight earlier at the track.

This looks an equally weak affair and in fields of eight runners or less the veteran has an extremely healthy strike rate for a sprinter of 6-17, whereas in races which feature more than nine runners his record stands at a rather more modest 1-43.

Southwell, 20.00 - Back Charlie's Choice @ 4/15.00

I put up Charlie's Choice in the concluding Lingfield handicap on Saturday and was left with the impression he really ought to have won, not been beaten half-a-length.

But for being a shade too far back and hanging left in the straight, David Simcock's six-year-old probably would have overhauled Damascus Steel and Wonder and a finishing speed percentage of more than 116% (unsurprisingly the best in the race) suggests there may be some truth in that view.  

Course stats of 211336 hints that the longer straight at Southwell should pay more to his strengths and the Simcock team are in good heart at present with Campani providing his Newmarket handler with another big-priced winner on Sunday at Chelmsford.

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