Chelmsford Tips: Arabian Dusk to land feature in Essex

There is all-weather racing action to look forward to from Chelmsford on Thursday evening, with their seven-race card set to go to post from 17:45-20:45.

My Chelmsford tips includes one in the feature race - the Listed Chelmer Fillies’ Stakes - where 12 runners are set to do battle over the 6f trip.

18:45 - It's Tim @ 1/2

IT'S TIM looks the one to beat in the third race of the evening, a 1m 6f handicap, for trainer George Boughey with regular jockey Jack Callan once again taking up the ride.

Since finishing second on his last visit to Chelmsford at the start of April, It's Tim has been able to shake his maiden tag at Bath and follow up with a second success at Brighton.

There is a quick turnaround from that Brighton win and he has also been handed a 5lb rise, but that should not stop It's Tim from making it a hat-trick of successes ahead of the likes of Forglen and Drouthy Neebor, who could prove to be his nearest challengers.

19:15 - Arabian Dusk @ 5/4

The feature Chelmer Fillies’ Stakes offers a prize of £45,368 to the winner and ARABIAN DUSK from the Simon and Ed Crisford yard and the Joseph Patrick O'Brien-trained Lady With The Lamp could be the main protagonists.

Preference is for Arabian Dusk, who could benefit from the drop back to 6f after failing to stay the distance but putting in a creditable performance on her seasonal reappearance in the Nell Gwyn Stakes at Newmarket in April.

There was certainly no disgrace in that fourth-place finish and this is a horse with pedigree following her win in last season's Duchess Of Cambridge at Newmarket and her third at the same venue in the Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes.

Lady With The Lamp was a winner at Cork on her seasonal reappearance just under a month ago, but she may be edged out by her direct rival in this Listed contest.

19:45 - Bishop's Crown @ 11/4

BISHOP'S CROWN was well backed to win on his seasonal reappearance at Kempton in April for trainer Eve Johnson Houghton, but despite finishing only sixth, he ran with credit.

With cheekpieces now re-fitted and a return to his previous winning mark - which came in a handicap at Salisbury last September - this could be a race that is there for the taking for Bishop’s Crown.

Monsieur Beaulieu could be the main threat, as he has held his form well over the winter and into the spring, but it could be another impressive but ultimately fruitless run for Nick Littmoden's seven-year-old.

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