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Three horses to note for tonight's meetings

Archie Watson: important milestone
Archie Watson: important milestoneCredit: Mark Cranham

Unusually, tonight's two meetings are the most valuable of the day in Britain, with Chelmsford's £153,000, seven-race card offering big money on the all-weather. Nottingham stages the other evening meeting, with a £16,000 conditions sprint the feature at 6.55. Here are three runners to look out for

Headline Act (6.10 Chelmsford)

Archie Watson has made a great start to his training career and has enjoyed plenty of all-weather success, especially with juvenile runners.

This season he has a 54 per cent strike-rate (seven winners from 13 runners) with his two-year-old runners on the all-weather and Headline Act bids to improve that record tonight.

The daughter of Helmet has not shown much in her three starts to date, but was sent off favourite on debut at Kempton and should handle the step up in trip to a mile.

Ornate (6.55 Nottingham)

The race last year provided a popular winner in Kingsgate Native, and trainer Robert Cowell has the chance of another success with Ornate.

Although an infrequent winner, with two victories from 18 starts, the four-year-old has plenty of talent. If he is in the same kind of form as when defeating Monsieur Joe by four lengths in a similar race at Newmarket last time he could take some stopping.

Sitar (7.25 Nottingham)

This James Fanshawe-trained sprinter enjoys her trip to the course, with two wins and second to her name from three visits to Nottingham.

Her last win came over this evening's 5f trip last month, for which she has been raised 5lb in the weights. However, she is the only three-year-old in the field and looks capable of further improvement.

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