Lingfield flies the AW flag on Thursday with the highlight the 0-85 handicap for 3yos over 1m at 5.33. Only six go to post including a couple who come into this off the back of a win, but the top-weighted LAKE COMO is the one who makes the most appeal. George Boughey’s gelding won twice on Tapeta at the end of last year, but he handles Polytrack well enough having made the frame in all three tries on the surface. Although beaten 7l into fourth of nine at Kempton last month, that doesn’t tell the whole story as he ran into all sorts of trouble but for which he would have finished a lot closer. The winner of that race didn’t do the form any harm when runner-up in the London Mile Series Final back at Kempton on Saturday.

The stable should already have struck courtesy of MY MARIA in the opening 0-75 nursery over 6f at 2.40. Upped to this trip for the first time, the filly very much deserved to break her duck when making all at Wolverhampton 15 days ago, having finished runner-up in her previous three starts. She only had half a length to spare at the line, but there was a healthy gap back to the third and she has only gone up 2lb. This sharper track may also be in her favour.

The 0-60 handicap over 5f at 6.05 can go to MART. Des Donovan’s gelding is on a losing run of 24, but has become well treated as a result and, with blinkers fitted for the first time, he did well to finish a clear second of five over course and distance nine days ago having given away ground at the start. This is only the second time he has raced down at this level on the AW and granted a cleaner break, he finds himself in a very winnable race.

PRIDE EYE can take the 0-55 handicap over 1m4f at 6.35. A winner over 1m at Southwell in January, Mark Rimell’s filly ran her best race since then when failing by a short head to get up in a 0-50 classified event over 1m2f here a fortnight ago. That performance suggested she was worth another go at this trip and Billy Loughnane rides her for the first time. David Bellingham