4:00 Doncaster Tips

I'm interested in Ilitch here. May sound like a Russian oligarch, but there's form there and there's also some stats on testing ground. The trip is a concern, but there's point-to-point form to go on.

Mask Of Zorro had to fight to the line to get the hat-trick up last time with a double penalty. However, that was on good ground, and his better runs are on soft or deeper, which it is here. So the new penalty may well be defied.

Trained by the Parkinson/Smith partnership. Comes into this race on a hat-trick of wins. Both wins came over course and distance. Oscar Palmer rode the horse on both occasions. Three wins from seven at this trip and holds a decent chance of winning again.

Be The Difference landed a hat trick of wins over 3m at the end of last year, all on soft ground, and two at 3m. He ran in a hot Class 3 on Boxing Day over 2m5f and was not disgraced. Back to Class 4 today, and if he runs up to his mark again this is a winning opportunity.

JUSTUS looks worth an each way interest stepping up in trip with Brian Hughes an eye-catching booking. He has done nothing in two runs back from a 220-day break but they should have helped his fitness and he has been dropped 8lb in the process. The jockey booking is interesting, the horse is down in Class, the Going is already officially Soft with further rain forecast in the area, and I think he could improve for the step up in trip.