NAP of the Day: Mark to get off the… mark?

How good was Opportunity (tipped at 5/4) at Carlisle on Saturday? The four-year-old son of Frankel, for William Haggas and Wathnan Racing, made easy work of things and might've booked his ticket for Royal Ascot. Wherever he goes, he's one to follow.

Hopefully we can pick up from where we left off on Tuesday with a winning NAP of the Day - this time from Pontefract.

Pontefract punters are getting behind ACCORDING TO MARK for the opener in West Yorkshire - a 1m2f maiden for three-year-olds and above - which has sort of spoiled the narrative of this article.

My intention was to play on the vulnerability of Alma Latina, who I expected to be the choice of the betting public. How wrong I was...

Ralph Beckett's three-year-old filly was third on debut at Sandown in April behind the Ed Walker-trained Felicitas, who went on to finish within a length of Betfred Oaks hopeful Legacy Link in the Musidora at York last month.

It's a very in-your-face piece of form, hence my prediction about how the market would shape up, but it seems the public are on the same page as I. That's the page titled 'scepticism'.

Alma Latina was in receipt of six pounds at Sandown and she failed on her subsequent start at Salisbury, beaten at 11/10f. The result is one thing, her behaviour is another - and I didn't like what I saw that day. Her trainer's in average form, too.

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As far as I'm concerned, she's vulnerable to the likes of According To Mark - a three-year-old son of St Mark's Basilica trained by Edward Bethell in North Yorkshire.

The 85k guineas buy was fourth of 12, just under five lengths off the pace, on his debut at Newcastle back in November, catching the eye from all the way out the back of the field after a slow start.

Over 140 days later, he reappeared at three in a strong novice event Redcar and was just touched off by Richard & Peter Fahey's 97-rated Mr Colonel in a proper ding-dong.

He pushed the winner, who was only six lengths behind Betfred Derby favourite Benvenuto Cellini in the Chester Vase last month, all the way to the line. The rest of the field were trailing by seven lengths.

For me, that's by some distance the strongest piece of form on offer in this field of four and unless Alma Latina is hiding her light under a bushel, I fancy According To Make will take all the beating on Tuesday.

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