Three horses who catch the eye tonight

There are two meetings to get your teeth stuck into this evening with Hexham and Huntingdon hosting the action.

That's The Deal
6.35 Huntingdon
The John Cornwall-owned and -trained teenager does not immediately jump off the page from 1lb out the handicap against a Charlie Longsdon-trained top-rated (on Racing Post Ratings) rival less than half his age, but dig a little deeper and he starts to stick out.

Zayfire Aramis and especially My Nosy Rosy are coming off long absences (285 days and 569 respectively), while Gold Ingot and Miami Present haven't finished in the first three in any of their last four starts. That leaves the favourite, Hepijeu, who is well-treated on old form but has been unreliable of late. That's The Deal, however, ended a long losing run two starts ago and ran with great credit under a penalty when third at Southwell a week ago and gets in here off a 3lb lower mark which offsets against the fact he is technically racing from out of the weights.

The Doorman
6.45 Hexham
Ben Haslam has won twice with The Doorman in the last 12 days, first at Carlisle by nine lengths and then at Sedgefield by two and a quarter. They were novice hurdles and he steps back into handicap company here under a penalty, which makes his task tougher, but there are few things more eyecatching than an in-form horse in the famous green and gold silks of JP McManus and there is every chance there is more to come given the level of form he showed over fences in Ireland this time two years ago when trained by Mouse Morris.

Moabit
7.35 Huntingdon
No trainer with a runner at Huntingdon this evening has a better strike-rate than Paul Nicholls' 32 per cent (six from 19), so the fact he sends just one horse on the 304-mile round trip from his Ditcheat base makes Moabit one to note. The five-year-old won four on the bounce for Nicholls this time last year and looks to have been kept for another summer campaign as this is his first start for 276 days.

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