3:10 Ascot Tips

Crest Of Fire takes a significant drop in class after contesting the competitive Britannia last time out, where he was drawn on the wrong side of the track and never really able to land a blow. Jack Channon's charge looks to have improved plenty from two to three, landing a maiden at Southwell by 10 lengths before shaping like an eye-catcher at Carlisle in a 0-100 handicap, short of room but finishing strongly up the hill into third. This looks a more suitable contest and, on bare form, he should be one of the main protagonists despite carrying top weight, solid each-way contender at around 13/2.

Won at Leicester in October. Has raced just twice since, with the latest a 4th at Sandown. Slightly unbalanced when trying to gain on the leaders towards the end, but was potentially rusty after a 57-day break and was running on a tough track with its undulations. Has been gelded, so could potentially kick on nicely here on the next run.

Shaman colt who was good enough to win first time out last year and has been contesting in some pretty competitive races since was last seen at Goodwood 48 days ago where finishing 10th/17 not ideally placed out wide on the occasion currently operating on a mark of 86 C G Cox's inmate looks poised to bounce back and strike and possesses all the necessary credentials to do so with a good analysis of this Jll Class 3 Handicap clearly showing Shaman Champion will be extremely well suited in running with his favoured pace level very well likely to be at his disposal given the horses enrolled to run here which will play extremely well into his strengths here at the Ascot turf track with ground conditions also perfectly ideal jockey Jack Nicholls takes off a handy looking 5lb which only enhances his good looking claims here must be taken seriously and accordingly with his price at the time of writing representing good E/W value bold showing anticipated . Respected .