There are five meetings taking place across Britain and Ireland on Monday as we start into a week that leads towards British Champions Day at Ascot on Saturday.

Flat cards come from Gowran Park, Yarmouth, Musselburgh, Windsor before an evening all-weather meeting at Kempton (AW).

We have a trio of Monday fancies to follow, including Tribal Hunter looking to enhance a good course strike-rate for Richard Fahey at Windsor. 

15:45 Windsor – Tribal Hunter @ 7/2

The season at Windsor is into the dying embers now and this afternoon’s offering includes the Champions Day On Sky Sports Racing Handicap, a six-furlong Class 4 contest which can go the way of Richard Fahey’s contender Tribal Hunter.

The Sioux Nation gelding won his only turf start as a two-year-old, scoring in a soft ground Hamilton maiden last August over this trip, while his efforts either side of that on the all-weather at Newcastle were credible in defeat to complete his juvenile story.

After 391 days out, he returned late last month for a Pontefract handicap (6f, good to soft) and a big run was anticipated as he started second-favourite in the betting.

He was one of two runners impeded by Roundhay Park around two-furlongs from home and that saw him drop to the rear of the eight-runner field.

He managed to recover his equilibrium as Oisin Orr gathered him for a renewed challenge, but once more they found their pathway blocked a furlong out, after which Orr accepted his fate and allowed his mount to come home eased down.

The handicapper has generously dropped him 1lb for that outing and, sent now to a track where Fahey has a 25 per cent strike-rate with runners in 2023, he is likely to make amends for that luckless seasonal return.

16:10 Musselburgh – Shades Of Summer @ 6/1

The feature race at Musselburgh on Monday afternoon is the British Ebf Ruby Anniversary Scottish Premier Fillies’ Handicap over the minimum five-furlongs and a field of nine are set to go to post.

Three-time all-weather winner Shades Of Summer is yet to score on turf, but she hasn’t been with Jane Chapple-Hyam long and the early signs have been promising for her.

She ran well on stable bow at Salisbury (6f, good to firm) last month, beaten a length-and-a-quarter into third in a Class 2 event, and it was a similar margin of defeat since at Newmarket (6f, good) despite dropping some places late in the piece.

The Shamardal filly races from an unchanged mark of 79 now and the return to 7f, a distance she has won over before, looks a positive.

19:30 Kempton – Celtic Champion @ 3/1

Both trainer Andrew Balding and rider Oisin Murphy have been in good form of late and they can team up for a winner on the evening card at Kempton with Celtic Champion.

The Adaay gelding is lightly-raced. He won his novice on turf at Salisbury last summer and got on the scoresheet off a mark of 84 in February at Lingfield over 6f.

He has run well in three starts since returning from a break in August, notably when beaten a length in a bunched finish to a Class 4 Newmarket handicap 23 days ago.

The winner was agonisingly denied next time at Ripon, while the fourth won on his next start at Nottingham. From an unchanged mark and, with a return to the all-weather likely a positive, he can go well here with Murphy up for the first time.

They are on the Most Napped table via the Betfred Betfinder and look sure to be a danger to all concerned at Kempton.