KIM TINKLER'S winter of discontent ended when she steered Simply The Guest to victory at Southwell last week.

The leading Malton-based lady jockey had previously gone without a winner for over four months, but now that Kim has brought the miserable run of results to end, more success beckons aboard the same horse at Wolverhampton this afternoon.

Wolverhampton's polytrack surface is actually slower than the fibre-sand at Southwell, a factor which, according to his overall form profile, should be totally to the selection's advantage.

There are another couple of major positives to add into the equation because Simply The Guest (4.20) not only won in an extremely fast time, but also strung back-to-back wins together at an almost identical time last year.

Sedgefield handler Ray Craggs has whacked a pair of blinds on Waterloo Corner (4.50) in the hope it will bring about a change of fortune for the three-year-old.

Two starts ago at Southwell over seven furlongs, Waterloo Corner came agonisingly close to shedding his maiden tag when failing by a short-head to catch the ultra-game all-way-scorer, Suffolk House.

Craggs then upped his charge in trip to nine furlongs at today's venue, an experiment which clearly didn't come off since there was nothing left in the locker when the apprentice jockey, Tom Eaves, went for broke come the closing stages.

Perhaps today's intermediary trip, plus the application of blinkers first time and the booking of top all-weather rider, Eddie Ahern, could do the trick for Waterloo Corner, who may have most to fear from High Dyke in the footballpools.com Handicap.

With only one career success over hurdles to date, Plumpton-bound Pardishar's resolution has been called into question on more than one occasion.

Gary Moore's gelding could be a bit of a thief, but the opposition in the totesport Handicap Hurdle is no great shakes, and seeing as Pardishar (3.30) kept on like a lion when the gun was put to his head at Fontwell last time out, maybe he's about to silence his critics.

In the preceding Racecourse Novices Chase, the Paul Nicholls-trained Whitford Don (3.00) has a superb chance to justify almost certain favouritism for the £10,000 event.

Despite winning at Warwick in January, Superform's speed ratings suggest that even in victory, Whitford Don was a shade below par. If that was the case it puts the triumph in an even better light, giving rise to the theory that there could be plenty more to come from Ruby Walsh's relatively unexposed mount.

Although Lingfield's low-grade card doesn't exactly set the pulse racing, there might be a small profit to be enjoyed by siding with Super Dominion (4.10).

A former course and distance winner, Super Dominion is sure to get every assistance from the saddle from Neil Callan, currently staging a strong challenge to become the 2004-5 champion jockey on the all-weather.

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