Best Bets: Horse racing tips from Sporting Life and Timeform team

THEORYOFEVERYTHING – 2.20 Newmarket (Andrew Asquith)

THEORYOFEVERYTHING looked a horse right out of the top drawer when making a winning debut for John & Thady Gosden at Doncaster last season and, while he didn’t quite progress as expected afterwards, he ran plenty of solid races. He also caught the eye on his return and debut for David O’Meara in a mile handicap at this course won by Hafeet Alain with Dutch Decoy in second, making up good ground from further back at a meeting where is was very hard to do so. Theoryofeverything enjoys a pull in the weights with the winner, will appreciate this longer trip, and won’t be inconvenienced if any more rain falls, so from the same mark he must go close under William Buick.

KERDOS - 2.55 Newmarket (Ben Linfoot)

There are few better trainers at nurturing top-class sprinters as they get older than Clive Cox and he highlighted this horse’s four-year-old campaign as something to look forward to right after he won the Beverley Bullet last September. KERDOS returned at Bath in a heavy ground handicap where he gave loads of weight to everything from a perch of 107, his six-length defeat in difficult circumstances nothing more than a pipe opener for the season ahead. It should bring him on nicely for this assignment and in an average renewal he looks a good bet.

OUTSIDE THE DOOR – 3.05 Punchestown (Billy Nash)

Padraig Roche has his string in tremendous order at present (three winners and three seconds from his last eight runners) and his OUTSIDE THE DOOR looks to have solid each-way claims in one of the races I look forward to most at the Punchestown Festival, the long-distance handicap chase. A winner at this track last June, he finished a very good second at Leopardstown last time and the way he finished out his race that day would suggest this even longer trip is unlikely to hold any fears for him. He arrives here fresher than most, is fully effective on this sort of ground and Aidan Kelly’s five-pound claim means he doesn’t have much weight to carry.

QUEEN OF THE PRIDE - 3.20 Goodwood (Graeme North)

Testing conditions at Goodwood are something of an unknown for QUEEN OF THE PRIDE in the 3.20 at Goodwood unlike for a couple of her rivals who are already proven in them, but she’s bred to relish plenty of give in the ground and can make light of the step up in class. The form of her win at Leicester last autumn when last seen has been franked over and over notably by Safety Catch who went on to win a listed race and Run Zarak Run who almost did the same in seventeen-runner contest at Fontainebleau. Those lines of form suggest Queen Of The Pride is right in the mix here in a race her stable have won twice since 2011.

EYE OF DUBAI - 4.45 Newmarket

EYE OF DUBAI has made a really bright start to his three-year-old campaign, beating a dual subsequent scorer (Flying Finn) in a Catterick novice before passing the post in front on handicap debut at last month's Craven meeting, only to be demoted to second after causing interference. Looking back at that race, he was tanking at the head of affairs passing the furlong marker and it makes great sense to drop back from seven to six furlongs this weekend, with William Buick no doubt going out to take the bull by the horns from around halfway. A 4lb rise for effectively winning a Newmarket handicap looks lenient and this progressive gelding will do for me on a competitive day's racing.

ROWAYEH - 5.50 Newmarket (David Ord)

She looks to be a handy mark to begin her four-year-old season and ROWAYEH is taken to make a winning return. Owen Burrows' charge beat subsequent Listed winner Mystical Pearl at Sandown in May and ran very well when third from a wide draw at the Qatar Goodwood Festival. She was too keen in a slowly-run race at York next time but there's a very strong pace forecast here, she has a handy high draw and has shown she handles the Rowley Mile track.

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