Horse Racing Tips: It could be time for more Glory at Lingfield

Lingfield, 16.45 - Back Call Glory @ 7/24.50

After the joys of some quality midweek action during the past fortnight, punters return to a diet of mediocrity on Tuesday with the Flat fare offering as part of its menu four 0-55 events, one 0-60 contest and five other 0-65s handicaps.

One lofty 0-70 handicap is the best Lingfield can muster on an eight-race card with the winning prize a paltry £4,187 heading to the successful connections.

An eight-year-old and two nine-year-olds help to comprise an eight 'strong' field for a race which opens the card and will hopefully not put viewers off watching the remaining seven low-grade affairs.

It's not all bad news however, as the owners of Arena Racing Company (Arc) David and Simon Reuben who run Lingfield among 15 other British racecourses have increased their fortune by £1.1 billion in the past year to a total of £27.97bn according to the The Sunday Times Rich List.

The winning owners of the Lingfield 16.45 will earn £3,454 and I hope that sum will be winging its way to the Alvechurch base of Ian Williams who saddle the limited Call Glory in the seven-furlong contest.

The selection has run well at Leicester on both of his recent starts and gave the impression a return to a flatter track over today's trip might see him get his head in front under Ryan Kavanagh who boasts respectable figures of 2992121543423 aboard the five-year-old.

Given the level he is competing at, those digits don't read too badly and he looks one of the better chances of a winner on a dire card.   

Hexham, 20.20 - Back Sunset Hill each-way @ 13/27.50

The likes of Wee Alki, Kilmore Rock, Ebselysees and an incredible 150/1151.00 winner on the level have made it a fruitful few weeks for Otterburn handler Susan Corbett and Sunset Hill looks a sporting bet to add to those gains with a first Hexham win in this Class 4 affair.

Despite a number of near misses at today's venue, the selection has yet add to her Kelso success, but there was enough promise in her latest start to suggest the return to hurdles can see her double her career tally.

Although the selection found the well-handicapped Perseus Way, placed in Graded hurdles for former trainer Gary Moore, too strong in the closing stages of a better event earlier this month, the speed figure recorded suggests she ought to be capable of going close here dropping down a grade and she might prove the strongest of the stable's two representatives.

Given this prize is a fairly modest one, the strength of competition is pretty surprising, but the prospect of easy ground has clearly attracted a raft of trainers to chance their hand.

Southern raider Thewoodcorner and Ayr winner Red Cadillac could well make the market, while Tristan Davidson, trainer of Perseus Way, is happy to take the selection on again, this time with Divilabother.

Hopefully, the layers will regard Sunset Hill as exposed and price her accordingly.

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