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'He should have little to fear under his ideal conditions' - Gary Savage with three Tuesday tips

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Peejaybee
2.10 Market Rasen
1pt win

Bringbackmemories
6.00 Southwell
1pt win

Blazing Hot
8.30 Southwell
2pts win

There will hopefully be jumping action at Market Rasen, but Southwell provides some decent fare as well and my strongest selection goes in the 5f handicap (8.30).

Blazing Hot may be seven years old, but he's been a regular all-weather winner (six from 23 on artificial surfaces), and seems in good enough form to take this modest contest. He ran well on his first two starts for Michael Herrington in the autumn when narrowly beaten on turf at Pontefract, and then going close at Newcastle in October under Tom Eaves, who is on board again.

Those two runs bode well for his return to the course and distance of his most recent win in December 2022, when he scored off a 3lb higher mark than the 62 he runs off here. A 71-day break is of little concern, and may even be a benefit, with that last win coming off the back of a similar absence.

Blazing Hot's three wins before his December 2022 victory came off marks of 61, 62 and 65, and this is undoubtedly his level. His trainer's nine per cent strike-rate increases to 14 per cent with four-year-olds and upwards here in the last five years, and unless first-time cheekpieces work the oracle on Mick Appleby's underachieving Not Too Real Bad, he should have little to fear under his ideal conditions.

Iain Jardine will have been pleased that his five-year-old Bringbackmemories has ended up in the second division of the 1m4f handicap (6.00) as it looks a race there for the taking.

There are plenty of four-year-olds in the contest, with L'Argent and Orange N Blue unexposed in handicaps, but they have plenty to prove and will hopefully enhance the odds available about Bringbackmemories.

Having rated a fair bit higher as a three-year-old in Ireland, and following a short hurdling career for John McConnell, he was switched to Jardine in April.

He spent the summer mostly running well in turf handicaps, winning one at Haydock (1m2f, good), and then being retained by the yard after winning a Hamilton seller in September.

His all-weather debut came over 1m2f on his latest start at Newcastle and marked him out as a potential improver on artificial surfaces. 

He was extremely keen on that first run for 95 days, and those exertions seemed to be taking their toll as he looked to be going nowhere two furlongs out. However, he came home really strongly to be beaten three-quarters of a length into second, a nose ahead of Flindrikin, who won next time out. 

If Bringbackmemories settles better he should take a deal of beating.

The jumps fare at Market Rasen is mediocre to put it mildly, but the 3m novices' limited handicap chase (2.10) holds some interest and I'm going to have a small wager on Peejaybee to get back on the scoresheet for his new trainer.

A bumper and maiden hurdle winner at this course on his first two starts in 2021, he became a useful handicap hurdler, culminating in a nine-and-a-half-length fifth in the EBF Final at Sandown (2m4f, soft) in March 2022 off a rating of 129.

He has presumably had some issues as he has had only five starts since, all over fences, with the most encouraging of them being his most recent outing, and first after a wind operation, here in November.

Peejaybee travelled into the race menacingly on his last run for trainer Richard Spencer that day before a blunder three out put him out of the reckoning and he was allowed to coast home.

Still in the same ownership, he has since been switched to Peter Bowen, who has such a good record at this course (22 per cent with chasers in the last five seasons), and if his jumping holds up he is handicapped to win this off 117.

Of the opposition, Henry Daly has a striking record with chasers at the course (6-12 in the past five years), but it's hard to imagine the ground will be anything other than sticky, terrain which the trainer's Moon Hunter will not appreciate. First Lord Du Cuet flatters to deceive, while Anglers Crag will find this tougher than the Class 4 he won last time.

The Venetia Williams-trained Lagonda is likely to be all the rage having performed well in two chases before Christmas, but at likely bigger odds I am going to take a chance on the back class of Peejaybee.


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