The Punt Daily: Tom Collins' free horse racing tips on Thursday afternoon

EYECATCHER

Liamba (1.50 Southwell)

It's time for the Fibresand specialists to return to Southwell and the most interesting of those is Liamba, who has now joined Mick Appleby from David O'Meara and boasts form figures of 23232173341174345 at this venue. Those victories have all come over 6f, so the step up in trip is a slight worry, but she's always primed to go well at this time of year, gets the assistance of Ben Curtis and is able to race off 2lb lower than her last winning mark.

DARK HORSE

(2.11 Taunton)

Chris Honour has made a good start to his training career with three winners from 19 runners and he has a stellar chance of enhancing that statistic with Troed Y Melin. This eight-year-old is just 2-22 in his career (1-10 under rules) but showed a good level of ability when second at a huge price over this course and distance in December last year and went on to fill the same berth in a useful Chepstow handicap chase off a mark of 94. After a long layoff, Troed Y Melin surprised many when winning at Exeter on his reappearance before a bad mistake cost him any chance last time out. He travelled noticeably well that day, will appreciate the return to this venue and he can certainly win off his mark of 100.

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