Midweek Tipping - Musselburgh October 26th

Without sounding too cocky, Saturday was a tremendous day for followers of this articles selections, with out best bet, the Roger Varian trained Suhaila winning a tough fifteen runner handicap, going off 6/1 favourite, and other selection Gusto winning the Listed race on the Doncaster card at 8/1, providing yet more profit for a very good October.

We focus our attention Wednesday to Musselburgh, a place that can be often quite tricky to predict, and another place in the north where a can of worms can often be opened, to financially disastorous consequences! Haydock offers its first jump card of the year, and there is also racing on the flat in the afternoon at Nottingham and in the evening at Kempton Park.

A horse who has probably been one of the most unluckiest of the season is CHOISAN for trainer Ted Easterby. The son of sprint sensation Choisir has ran a whopping nine times as a two year old, and is still yet to break his maiden tag. In this run however has come five 2nds, a 3rd and two 4ths, showing that there is definitely ability there for the colt. He has finished behind some very smart horses too, including Zakreet, Gabrials Star and group horse Lilbourne Lad. He tries a mile for only the second time, after previously finishing second to a exciting horse of John Gosden's in Deia Sunrise. If things were to fall his way, he is surely in with a chance, in what looks like on paper, a poor maiden.

BEAT THE SHOWER is another horse who has shown his tenacity in northern handicaps. He disappointed when upped in tip to 2m 2f at York, still managing to finish a game fourth, beaten only five lengths to Orsippus, a horse with good form in the book. Before that he finished first twice, and a second and a third running over 2 mile handicaps, only going up 9lb in the handicap over the four runs. The gelding looks to still have plenty in hand and is currently thriving. Mark Johnston has a couple of entries that could prove to be a threat if gretting the breaks but the Peter Niven trained gelding looks sure to get placed at the very least.

Robin Bastiman is a trainer associated with sprinters in recent years, with the likes of Singeur, and more famously Borderlescott grabbing the headlines, and whilst NOVALIST isn't of that quality, he looks a sprinter going places, and with the level of form he has, a Class 6 handicap looks well within his grasp. He had a win and second under his belt from the fibresand at Southwell, before not seemingly handling heavy ground at Carlisle, and back after a break, he could be worth another chance. Three horses in behind his last win have all come out and won, further enhancing his claims, with hopefully giving the stable another success over the minimum trip.

3.50 Musselburgh - Beat the Shower (Nap)

2.40 Musselburgh - Novalist

3.15 Musselburgh - Choisan