Lucky 15 Tips: Rossa’s Roodee mission is not impossible

Sure sign that the flat season is well and truly up and running - we've had the Betfred Guineas Festival, it's Chester this week, and York the next. Get in!

Oaks and Derby trials aplenty, sizzling racing, fabulous crowds and devastating performances - yes please. No prizes then for guessing that on the opening day of Chester's legendary May gathering it's to the historic Roodee that we're journeying for Wednesday's Lucky 15 tips. Seven races on the card, the first of which is scheduled for 13:30.

Horse Racing Odds

Today's Horse Races

13:30 - Ali Shuffle @ 7/4

The traditional curtain-raiser to Chester's season - The Lily Agnes, a conditions stakes race for two-year-olds over the flying five.

You know the Chester drill, especially in the sprints - low draws are gold dust, skim those rails, and look to make all. That seems a plan ideally suited to my selection, the gloriously-named Ali Shuffle, a daughter of a Norfolk and Flying Childers scorer at two and already with a couple of victories in the last month under her belt from her only two starts.

This one so far has very much been foot-on-the-pedal from the outset, racing prominently, and being in the one box couldn't possibly be better. She's out of an Oasis Dream mare, who won the July Cup, so this one is bred in the purple to go a bit - and how about sluicing up here and heading for the Queen Mary at the Royal meeting? Can but dream ...

The superb Karl Burke trains, Sam James has the riding assignment, and she runs in the prolific colours of Nick Bradley Racing 5 & E Burke.

14:05 - Redorange @ 5/2

Another 5f test, this time a Class 3 handicap for three-year-olds.

My selection represents trainer Clive Cox and a man he reaches out to when he's got a good 'un, Arc-winning jockey Rossa Ryan. Redorange is a Mehmas gelding who on seasonal reappearance 12 days ago at Sandown, a proper Grade 1 venue, produced a career-best when failing by just over a length in a slightly higher grade.

The assessor has annoyingly popped him up a pound for that but there's every reason to imagine there's more under the hood on what will only be his second start since the gelding procedure. Almost forgot - he's drawn two, and with plenty of early toe he's another who will proverbially attempt to make every post a winning one.

14:35 - That's Amore @ 9/4

I can hear Dean Martin ... you? This is a gorgeous Listed fillies' race for the Cheshire Oaks over nearly a mile-and-a-half, and my selection has got Rossa on board once again, this time for trainer Ralph Beckett.

That's Amore has run just once, last backend in a Newbury maiden on heavy ground, and she dotted up by 6l under the excellent Hector Crouch. Now it's time to take on the big girls, and as her sire New Bay acted on soft and worse but also good ground I see no impediment, surface-wise.

She's one of several with a Betfred Oaks entry, and if this can be negotiated that might not look fanciful in the slightest. She now races in the livery of Lady Bamford, after being registered as owned by the trainer's wife until January this year.

Aidan fields a big danger in Minnie Hauk, but are some of his without a run just a tiny bit behind in terms of coming to themselves just yet? All will be revealed ...

15:05 - Pinhole @ 6/1

I can barely believe it (of course I can) but it's Beckett and Ryan time again, this time with a three-year-old son of the mighty Frankel.

It's the Chester Vase, a G3 for colts and geldings, and my selection Pinhole appears in my favourite colours in the whole of racing - the Juddmonte silks of Frankel, and Dancing Brave fame, to name but two of a host of legends.

One run in a backend Newmarket novice for the now-retired Sir Michael Stoute (beaten 5.5l) - then in December at Southwell, he finished powerfully to take another novice heat from a Crisford charge that's won two on the spin since.

The fifth home that day has won a little contest too so there's a bit of substance to proceedings and though this is a big step up, he's bred for the job and could hardly have better connections.

Fascinating race, with Ballydoyle once again around the head of the market, but I'm not for swapping.

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