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Amateur rider Becky Brisbourne has ridden five winners from just 22 rides in the last five seasons, all of them for her father Mark, and the pair enjoy a 25% strike rate and a very healthy level-stakes profit when combining. The father/daughter partnership team up with Harrys Yer Man (13:15) this afternoon, and Thursday's Wolverhampton winner looks to have a great chance of following up in the opening handicap at Southwell. The change of surface is a slight concern, but such was the manner of the unexposed eight-year-old's gambled-on victory five days ago that he's given a chance to prove he's well ahead of the handicapper in a race that isn't going to take much winning.

Another intriguing jockey booking comes aboard Steelcut (14:00) in the five-furlong handicap at Wolverhampton as the in-form Joe Fanning has been booked by David Evans for only the second time in the last half a decade. Steelcut is a track specialist and, despite being beaten in claimers on his last two outings, isn't to be overlooked back in handicap company off a BHA rating just 3 lb higher than when taking a course-and-distance event around Christmas. The lack of pace in the race is a worry, but Fanning is one of the most tactically-astute jockeys in the weighing room and he can make his second ride on the eight-year-old a winning one.

Progeny of Red Clubs enjoy a high strike rate on ground described as 'soft' (23%) or 'heavy' (17%), and it appears the similarly-deep surface at Southwell is also proving well suited to the sire's offspring, as highlighted by Ann Duffield's Heidi's Delight (14:15). Three-year-old Heidi's Delight has improved for the switch to fibresand/fitting of blinkers on her last two starts (a win and a second) and the 2 lb rise for her latest effort is more than offset by her dropping back to the minimum trip, a move that is going to ideally suit the strong-travelling front-runner. Heidi's Delight is currently a Timeform Horse In Focus and it will be disappointing if she cannot successfully burn off her nine rivals at a track where early pace is often crucial.

Back Harrys Yer Man @ 5.3 in the 13:15 at Southwell
Back Steelcut @ 3.8 in the 14:00 at Wolverhampton
Back Heidi's Delight @ 3.95 in the 14:15 at Southwell

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