Sky Bet Sunday Series tips: race-by-race guide for Beverley

Round three of the richly-endowed Sky Bet Sunday Series is at Beverley with every race live on Racing TV and our expert Raymond Wigge has a selection for every contest.

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3.45 – Sky Bet Sunday Series Apprentices’ Sprint Handicap

Jordan Electrics will have his followers here in his hat-trick bid but the 7lb rise for those two victories puts him above his highest-ever winning mark and he could be vulnerable, particularly from a high draw.

Drawn wider, and looking for a fourth win on the trot, Papa Cocktail may not have reached his ceiling yet but this looks a stiff test from a stone higher than when his winning run began and his improvement may be temporarily stalled.

This could go to LE BEAU GARCON, whose own initial promise hit the buffers last season, but who looked to be back on track last time, staying on eye-catchingly after the late removal of his blindfold left jockey Joanna Mason with a mountain to climb. He could start to make up for lost time here at the chief expense of Shalaa Asker, normally thereabouts in these events and piloted here by crack youngster Benoit De La Sayette.

4.15 – Race To A Cure for MND Newcomers Maiden Fillies’ Stakes

If the 17-runner Sprint Handicap isn’t hard enough for you, nine unraced two-year-old fillies running here might be, and on paper the first port of call is perhaps David Simcock’s MODERN VERSE, a daughter of first-season sire Advertise ridden by Hayley Turner.

Champion Juvenile Too Darn Hot’s first crop is represented by Carolina Reaper, who looks another likely type given the Johnstons’ record with youngsters down the years, and the Middleham dynasty also send out Winter Life – a daughter of Churchill and decent handicapper Lush Life – under stable stalwart Joe Fanning.

Archie Watson has also maintained a remarkable strike-rate with his two-year-olds in recent seasons, and his Spiritual Pursuit, by Invincible Spirit out of a Street Cry mare, could also be more forward than most in a race where the market may tell you more than the Studbook.

4.45 – Sky Bet Sunday Series Stayers’ Handicap

After breaking his Turf duck at the 18th time of asking at the last Sunday Series meeting at Hamilton GEREMIA will be popular here, and with the extra distance in his favour Jim Goldie’s five-year-old can take a second step towards the £100,000 bonus again on offer to any three-time Sunday Series winner.

Richard Fahey’s The Predictor steps down in trip after a decent effort in the Chester Plate, which should be to his advantage, but he’s been nudged up another pound to a career-high 80 and may be a better place option.

Blow Your Horn should give the selection most to do, with the suspicion that his efforts at this trip so far have not seen him in the best light for reasons other than any stamina limitation.

5.15 – Sky Bet Sunday Series 3YO Sprint Handicap

Another wide-open contest, with last-time winners Quandary and Blue Boar likely to head the market, but neither have fared well in the draw and it could be worth chancing DICKIEBURD, housed one off the rail, to make every yard after his solid effort in a much better heat at Epsom.

That run came after a near three-month break and he should be cherry ripe now to give Yorkshire handler Craig Lidster a local victory.

Another in the inside boxes with a chance at a price is King’s Crown, for whom the drop to the minimum trip should be ideal. Provided he and the selection don’t get involved in too heated a burn-up they should both be bang there at the finish.

5.45 – Sky Bet Sunday Series Fillies’ Handicap

My Little Queens posted the latest in a series of solid efforts with her victory at Hamilton but she may have been a touch fortunate to beat Nigwa there and the 4lb rise for that win also sets Richard Fahey’s mare a tougher test here.

Dubai Crystal might have run into a decent one at Ascot after his Redcar Novice win and could prove better than this grade in time, but Mick and David Easterby’s REACH looked one to follow last time at Nottingham and has to be backed to take the slight step in grade in her stride.

Reach runs away with it at Nottingham

She rates the day’s best bet, and it could also pay to keep an eye on David O’Meara’s Leitzel, who reappears after disappointing in last season’s Rockfel and could yet be anything.

6.15 – Sky Bet Sunday Series Handicap

Charlie Johnston has another big chance with recent all-the-way Epsom scorer Austrian Theory but such tactics may not work so well here despite his favourable draw.

Potential market rival Maywake has been in form, but is not so well boxed and may not repeat his fast ground third at York having previously shown – like so many of his sire’s progeny – a marked preference for softer conditions.

Chasing a four-timer, Harriet Bethell’s On The River needs a second look despite the assessor’s vengeance, but it could be the day to catch AUTUMN FESTIVAL, for whom nothing went right last time at Goodwood. His course record reads ‘121’ and he could go off a decent price here.

6.45 – Sky Bet Sunday Series Middle Distance Handicap

The Simcock-Turner axis will hope to bookend the card with cosy Ripon winner Fulfilled, but he may be poor value with several in-form rivals in opposition.

The Nu Form Way has taken his form to a new level lately but has never really shown signs of having a mark as high as 78 in him, and it may be best to leave this to David O’Meara’s EETEE, who may yet have a measure of further improvement in him.

There’s no doubt the topweight has it to do, but he looked to have plenty in hand at Redcar last time – look out too for an improved effort from Dubai Leader, who won the only time he has raced on fast turf and should now be hard fit after a couple of pipe-openers.

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