Smart hopes Mythmaker can prove the real deal to give him more Musselburgh joy

3.50 MusselburghBreeders Backing Racing EBF Flying Scotsman Conditions Stakes | 5f | RUK

Don't watch this race expecting to see another future Group 1 winner like last year's hero Alpha Delphini, but siding with one his stablemates could still pay off.

Bryan Smart won this £18,534 contest 12 months ago with the seven-year-old, who did not score again until landing the Coolmore Nunthorpe at York in August.

Watch Alpha Delphini win the Coolmore Nunthorpe at York

Now the trainer runs Beverley Bullet second Mythmaker, an eight-time winner who's earned more than £156,000 in prize-money.

"He's been a superstar for us," Smart said of the six-year-old, who was fourth in the Rous Stakes at Ascot nine days ago.

"He's very well in himself and I thought he ran a good race in the Rous. He had run well at Beverley the time before and going back on quicker ground will definitely suit him. He's in good nick and I'm hoping for a good run."

Paul Midgley's Tarboosh has already won conditions events at Newmarket, Hamilton and Nottingham this season and was a good second in a £50,000 handicap at Haydock last time out.

Muntadab has work cut out from wide draw

3.20MusselburghRacegoers Club 50th Anniversary Handicap | 7f | RUK

Teenage apprentice Oakley Brown faces one of the trickiest tests of his short career as he bids to defy the draw to land this feature £20,000 handicap on last year's winner Muntadab.

The 7lb claimer, who's ridden three winners for his boss Richard Fahey this season, has his first ride for Roger Fell on an habitual front-runner who starts widest of all in stall ten.

Muntadab is 5lb higher in the handicap than when making all here 12 months ago and when repeating the feat over this 7f trip at Newmarket last month.

Fell said: "He's in good form. He won this quite easily last year off 97, and we're claiming 7lb.

"Everything suits bar the draw. If he can get out and get across then he'll be fine."

Teenage apprentice Oakley Brown won the Bronze Cup at Ayr last monthCredit: John Grossick (racingpost.com/photos)

Eddery confident Salisbury was no fluke

6.15 Kempton
32Red Handicap | RUK | 5f

Just because something looks too good to be true does not mean it necessarily is.

Equimou may have scored with unbelievable ease in handicap company at Salisbury last time but that was no flash in the pan according to Robert Eddery, who hopes she can defy a 9lb rise to a mark of 89 at Kempton.

See Equimou score impressively at Salisbury

The trainer points to the filly's smart spring form and said: "If you go back to May she was fourth in a Group 3 at Newmarket and was only a length and a half behind Mabs Cross.

"At her very best she was rated 101 but she lost her way through the middle of summer owing to various things and then found her form again.

"Her previous Leicester run was promising then she went to Salisbury and was very impressive. She's 9lb higher this time but she's still well handicapped and I'd have to be very hopeful. I don't think the all-weather is a problem because she won on it as a two-year-old."

O'Brien: Paradiso has very good chance

1.55Gowran ParkIrish Stallions Farms EBF Maiden | 1m | ATR

Aidan O'Brien looks set for a successful start to today's card with Il Paradiso, a son of Galileo, one of four runners from Ballydoyle in this juvenile maiden.

Third over course and distance on his debut last month, Il Paradiso ran second in a novice race, again over a mile, at Newmarket nine days ago, proving no match for easy winner Turgenev but finishing six lengths clear of the third.

O'Brien said: "Il Paradiso ran very well at Newmarket. We've been happy with him since. You'd hope the race will have brought him on and he looks to have a very good chance."

O'Brien's other contenders include first-timers Gathering Storm, a brother of multiple Group 1 winner Alice Springs, and Turnberry Isle, whose dam Rosdhu Queen won the Lowther Stakes and the Cheveley Park Stakes.

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