Thursday's free racing tips: smart selections from our specialist team

Handicappers' nap

Taverner (4.55 Chelmsford)

Limited performer these days but very fairly treated on form as recent as September. Worth chancing in this slightly easier race.
Simon Turner

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Newmarket nap

Red Secret (8.25 Chelmsford)

Galvanised by Silvestre de Sousa to score at Wolverhampton last time. The top rider is reunited with the Ed Dunlop-trained gelding, who has since worked well on the Al Bahathri.
David Milnes

Eyecatcher

London Calling (5.40 Kempton)

No match for the winner two starts ago at Chelmsford but took to this surface well and there are races to be won with him.
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Irish Angle

Barra (3.10 Clonmel)

Although she has fallen on two of her recent starts, the Gordon Elliott-trained eight-year-old looks the pick at the weights in this mares' chase.
Tony O'Hehir

Ace Tipster

Bennys King (3.25 Stratford)

Progressive chaser who goes well fresh and is fancied to complete a hat-trick on his return from a 309-day absence.
Graeme Rodway

Speed Figures

Lethal Lunch (1.55 Lingfield)

Dipped inside standard time when scoring at Chelmsford last month and this course-and-distance winner can make it four from five on an artificial surface.
Dave Edwards

Spotlight nap

Contrast (12.50 Lingfield)

Came from behind for 1m2f wins at Yarmouth and this track on last two starts, latterly in blinkers which are retained here. 3lb higher but still very well handicapped on old form.
Mel Cullinan

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Dark horse

Breathtaking Look (2.30 Lingfield)

Scored in Doncaster Group 3 to back up handicap success at Newmarket earlier in the summer. Has beaten some of these rivals and is a previous winner on the all-weather.
Rob Sutton

Must-have stat of the day

Charlie Appleby is 11-21 with his non-handicap three-year-olds at Lingfield in the last three seasons (52 per cent strike-rate, +£13.75 to £1 stakes). Expressionism runs in the 1m5f Listed race at 3.35.

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