NAP of the Day: Board the Lexington Express at Wolverhampton

It's a new week and I'm hoping for a better one as far as the NAP of the Day is concerned, starting on Tuesday at Wolverhampton.

It's a Marco Botti-trained filly who gets the vote of confidence in a four-runner field where tactics could be decisive.

LEXINGTON EXPRESS is a filly in rude health and I'm hopeful about her chances of going in again at Wolverhampton on Tuesday.

Marco Botti's three-year-old failed to get off the mark in nine starts as a juvenile for Alice Haynes, but she's 2-5 since joining the ranks at Prestige Place.

The first of those victories came at the third time of asking, in a Class 6 handicap here in the West Midlands in March off a mark of just 55.

She bolted up by six lengths that day, making all under jockey Marco Ghiani, who maintains the partnership on Tuesday.

Just touched off by a well-supported James Ferguson horse when attempting to follow up over course and distance off eight pounds higher just over a week later, she was back in the winners' enclosure at Southwell 12 days ago, reunited with Ghiani.

Lexington Express beat Sir Mark Prescott's 4/7f Raspoutine, who just nine days earlier won eased down at Lingfield off six pounds lower, which could easily prove to be a relatively smart piece of form.

She's up another three pounds, from 64 to 67, so more is demanded of the Prince Of Lir filly, but I believe another victory is highly possible.

Not only because of everything I've already discussed, but tactically too. She's a front-runner in a small field of hold-up horses, so I expect her to be allowed a lead and play the game of 'catch me if you can'.

I fear Tinsel, for Hughie Morrison and Tom Marquand. He comfortably beat the reopposing Zipwire over C&D, off worse terms, back in December and he ought to be confirm that form. This is his return from a 136-day break, though, so fitness isn't guaranteed.

Mimi's Magic is no back number for Ed Dunlop and Rossa Ryan, but I question whether she's got much, if anything in hand off her mark of 68. Time will tell.

There's a case to be made for all of four of the runners, but given the way I see things unfolding, it's Lexington Express for me.

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