Nap of the Day: 5/4 shot to fly home at Ayr

Just two meetings - flat fare from Ayr and jumping at Market Rasen - make up Sunday's racing schedule.

My Nap of the Day comes from north of the border, where a youngster is tipped to enhance his trainer's excellent recent record in a maiden event.

Kevin Ryan has won two of the last five renewals of the 14:20 Ayr - a two-year-old maiden over six furlongs - and the Yorkshire handler boasts strong claims for further success on Sunday.

His uniquely-bred RIKKI TIKI TAVI, a £65k purchase last summer, made a highly-encouraging debut at York just over three weeks ago and ought to improve plenty for the run.

The son of Bungle Inthejungle was runner-up to Ralph Beckett's Egoli on the Knavesmire, beaten just half-a-length. The rest of the field, including joint-favourites Stellar Sunrise and Tactical Formation, were over two-and-a-half lengths adrift.

Time will tell exactly how strong that form is, but the aforementioned Egoli emerged well behind a useful prospect on debut at Leicester previously, while 130k guineas-buy Stellar Sunrise was an eye-catching runner-up on his first day at school at Goodwood, so the signs are strong.

There ought to be any amount of improvement to come from the selection, who was very green in York. He took a keen pull early and was hanging left when under pressure from jockey Kevin Stott, who retains the partnership this weekend.

As the market suggests, Chairmanfourtimes is the one who ought to give Rikki Tiki Tavi the most to think about.

Adrian Keatley's son of 150/1 Royal Ascot hero Nando Parrado finished second to a couple of nice types at Nottingham and Chester last month and looks sure to run his race again.

However, I'm not sure he quite stayed six furlongs on the Roodee - albeit after using a bit of petrol to get a position early and setting fair fractions in front - so the same distance at this more testing venue raises a question. Also, the selection is open to a little more improvement, being he's only raced once.

Dodge City improved considerably between the first two runs of his career, so isn't ruled out, while the well-bred River Spey could leave his debut effort at Newbury well behind. That being said, I can't see them troubling the favourites.

Newcomers Cape Ashizuri and Mighty Magnus - the former in particular - are being asked to run to a high level first time out, which rates an unlikely prospect for me.

Tikki Taki Tavi is very much the one to beat and my idea of the Nap of the Day.

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