Monday Tips

Richard Fahey has always thought Supplicant was capable of landing a big pot and he can get his season off to the perfect start in the Riu Palace Meloneras Handicap at Pontefract.

To be fair to the Cheveley Park Stud-owned four-year-old, he owes his connections nothing having won the Champion Two Yrs Old Trophy at Ripon followed by the Group Two Mill Reef Stakes back in 2013.

As so often happens to three-year-olds who fail to see out seven furlongs or a mile, they have to wait a while to be competitive in sprint handicaps.

He was unplaced in heritage handicaps like the Great St Wilfrid and the Ayr Gold Cup, despite being quietly fancied in certain quarters, but he nearly landed a nice prize back at Ripon in September.

Narrowly beaten by the game mare Spinatrix, he lost nothing in defeat off a mark of 95 and showed he would be able to hold his own this season.

On his final run of the campaign at York, he was much further behind Spinatrix, suggesting he had gone over the top.

It usually takes a season or two for smart two-year-olds to find their feet again and Supplicant could have a big year.

Luca Cumani's Wistar hardly looks thrown in for the DEM Window Solutions Handicap but it was hard not to be impressed with his debut win at Yarmouth.

Unraced at two, he only had the one race last year so is obviously a delicate sort.

Nevertheless, he looked capable of living up to something like his expensive price tag when quickening in fine style to beat four subsequent winners.

Judged strictly on form, a mark of 84 looks stiff enough, but he promises to be better than that.

Saeed bin Suroor's Wild Storm faces quite a marked step up in trip for the Unibet Offer Daily Jockey & Trainer Specials Maiden Stakes but she should be suited by the extra distance at Windsor.

She ran a fine race to be second on her debut at Kempton over seven furlongs in October, doing little wrong before going down to a more experienced rival.

The yard had a couple of winners at Newmarket last week and they are usually ready to go first time out.

Ed Walker's Justice Belle should thrive now stepped up in trip in the James Partridge Memorial Handicap.

In three maidens, running once over seven furlongs and twice over a mile, she showed enough to suggest there were certainly races to be won with her.

Her breeding suggests she should do much better over distances such as this near 12 furlongs and she is very interesting off a mark of 69, particularly as the useful Italian jockey Antonio Fresu is booked to ride.

The return to a quicker surface can help Coyaba come back to something like the form he showed in bumpers when he turns out in the betdaq.com £20 Free Bet Conditional Jockeys' Handicap Hurdle at Kempton.

Australasia has shown enough in two runs to suggest his turn is near in the first division of the Northumberland College Gallery Standard Open National Hunt Flat Race at Hexham, while at Newton Abbot Far West should win the SIS Best In Class Novices' Chase.

CORK: 4.45 Greyscape, 5.15 Eisenhower, 5.45 Aggression, 6.15 Father Frost, 6.45 Bubbly Bellini, 7.15 Danequest, 7.45 Sidra.

HEXHAM: 1.30 Captain Hox, 2.00 Bolton Blue, 2.35 Shine A Diamond, 3.10 Central Flame, 3.40 Apache Pilot, 4.10 Ganbei, 4.40 Australasia, 5.10 Limos.

KEMPTON: 1.45 Coyaba, 2.20 Nicolas Chauvin, 2.55 Pagham Belle, 3.30 Taniokey, 4.00 Softsong, 4.30 Long Lunch, 5.00 Merrion Square,

NEWTON ABBOT: 5.05 All Force Majeure, 5.35 Ice Tres, 6.05 Far West, 6.35 Sonny The One, 7.05 Noble Friend, 7.35 Jambul Tree, 8.05 Fiulin.

PONTEFRACT: 2.10 Black Magic, 2.45 Wistar, 3.20 SUPPLICANT (NAP), 3.50 Riptide, 4.20 Beardwood, 4.50 Margrets Gift.

WINDSOR: 4.55 Great Page, 5.25 Go Nani Go, 5.55 Wild Storm, 6.25 Dont Have It Then, 6.55 Jebril, 7.25 Justice Belle, 7.55 Black Vale.

DOUBLE: Supplicant and Justice Belle