LAST week's 20-1 winning nap selection, Marinas Charm (7.35), has a tremendous chance of following up under a 3lb penalty at Windsor this evening in the OKI Colour Printer Handicap.

While being suitably humble as well as has hugely grateful for such long-priced successes, you're only as good as your last tip in this game and I'm hoping Marinas Charm can strike again while the iron is still hot at the south London track.

Admittedly it is a far warmer race than the one she collected at Hamilton on Wednesday, however the superbly-bred filly has a typically progressive profile of a Mark Johnston inmate to match her stunning pedigree.

By the top sire Zafonic, out of the mare, Marina Park, who provided Johnston with his first ever Group race winner, Marinas Charm has all the hallmarks of an individual likely to win three or four more before the season is out.

Earlier in the day, Big Tom will take some beating in the six- furlong Betting Exchange Maiden Stakes at Nottingham.

York-based trainer Declan Carroll could do with a boost after a relatively quiet spell and Big Tom, who ran a cracker when runner-up at Carlisle in July, looks just the sort to give his stable a much-needed shot in the arm.

The smart money at the Midlands course is surely destined to lump on Dragon Flyer (3.45), bidding for back-to-back victories in the Weatherbys Bank Conditions Stakes.

Twelve months ago the able Graham McCourt sent out Dragon Flyer to claim the £14,000 dash. Sadly, though, the former jump jockey-turned trainer subsequently packed in after struggling to make ends meet.

McCourt's unexpected retirement provided Mick Quinn with the opportunity to revive his own flagging fortunes, having served a long ban for neglecting a horse in his care.

Quinn's comeback hasn't exactly set the world alight with two winners so far this term, however Dragon Flyer ran so well in defeat when second to The Tatling in a Group 3 event at Glorious Goodwood, he is impossible to oppose in this lesser grade.

Life in the slow lane doesn't suit all-action Nerys Dutfield, who combines training racehorses with being mother to seven children.

The normally irrepressible Nerys found it hard to keep smiling through the spring and early summer when, in her own words, the horses "all had runny eyes and snotty noses."

Thankfully the clouds are finally beginning to lift over her yard and there could be further light in the sky if as expected Sweet Finesse (4.45) does the business in the closing Schools Out For Summer Apprentice Handicap.

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