Wednesday Racing Tips: Mill can churn out another Kempton win

It's a relatively quiet day on Wednesday with just three meetings scheduled to take place in Britain, one of which is an evening card under the lights at Kempton. The day's action gets underway at Lingfield at 12.35, closely followed by Catterick at 12.47 before Kempton's opener at 4.30. 

Amongst our Wednesday fancies is one for Jonjo and AJ O'Neill in the staying handicap chase at Catterick, the front-running gelding bidding to avenge a recent narrow defeat over course-and-distance.

13:47 Catterick - Powerofjet @ 2/1

The Martin Todhunter-trained POWEROFJET has been put up 7lb for November's Newcastle win, but that was only his second start over fences and he should have plenty more improvement to come, particularly over this longer trip.

The selection has won two of his last four outings, opening his account over hurdles off a mark of 87 at Carlisle last May and doubling his tally off a 4lb higher mark at Newcastle, when comfortably beating an in-form rival.

He was notably strong from the last at the Northumberland track and, being a half-brother to a couple of 2m4f winners, he looks sure to appreciate this stiffer test of stamina.

14:50 Catterick - Mersey Street @ 9/2

Jonjo and AJ O'Neill have their string in much better form now than earlier in the campaign and they look set for another winner courtesy of MERSEY STREET, who suffered a near miss behind the reopposing Valence d'Aumont over this course-and-distance last month.

The eight-year-old is just 1-20 overall under rules, though he's lightly raced over fences and made a bold bid from the front when going down by just a short-head here 24 days earlier.

He's gone up 4lb for that, but he remains 1lb lower than when scoring over hurdles at Fakenham almost exactly a year ago.

This track suits front-runners and he'll have no excuses on the forecast good to soft ground.

18:30 Kempton - Billy Mill @ 7/1

Rod Millman and Jason Edmunds teamed up with a winner at Kempton on Monday and they may well follow suit courtesy of BILLY MILL, who won a shade cosily over 7f here earlier this month.

The selection, now eight, has an excellent record on the artificial surfaces, winning eight of his 42 starts and finishing in the money on another 14 occasions.

He goes especially well at this venue, successful three times, including in May last year when he overcame a mark 2lb higher than he races off today.

It's debatable if he's as effective over this distance of a mile, but he has won over course-and-previously and should give a good account in what is an open handicap.

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