4:00 Uttoxeter Tips

If Beorma runs three races in three days, she will be going for a four-timer and will be carrying a stone penalty in this handicap hurdle. However, she has been winning comfortably, not appearing to take much out of herself, and could do it.

Brionywells is coming out again quickly after her win last week at Worcester, which is a bit of a concern, but she won so easily it may not have much impact. She was always a promising bumper horse without winning, but the recent step up in trip seems to have helped.

Bells of Ufford came back from 3 months off to run well at this trip on good to soft at Chepstow in March. Badly hampered at the last, he stayed on again well. Two runs prior to that were on slow ground when he was pulled up and tailed off. His start before those came at this course over 2m on good, when he stayed on well. The 2m4f today looks sure to aid his cause. He is on a fair mark judged on previous form, and the 6-y-o point winner looks capable enough to test the Skelton favourite. He will need to avoid the ground turning soft, but with the current description good the 12/1 offers some each-way value.

Big improving run latest at Hereford when 2nd of eight runners after a decent break and wearing cheek pieces for the first time. Was twenty-one lengths behind the eventual market leader, but the Skelton runner has won three on the bounce and won convincingly in their next run. Keeps cheek pieces for this and goes off a similar mark.