Dave Nevison: My three top horse racing tips on a bumper Friday

Scouring the cards for handicaps with sufficient runners for each-way bets means I have looked at all of the afternoon and evening meetings on a very busy day of action. Hopefully that will have been worth it with these three selections.

6.10 Newmarket: Micks Dream

The booking of Ryan Moore here obviously takes the eye and the step up to seven furlongs looks a very good move based on how well Micks Dream was finishing on his reappearance at Salisbury, a much stiffer track than this one.

He has been absent since that comeback in April and given the strong jockey booking I might be concerned if there was significant market weakness but I am not anticipating such and feel movement in the market is more likely in the other direction.

Roger Teal has not had a brilliant time of it recently but the yard had a 12-1 handicap winner at Chelmsford on Tuesday and hopefully that will herald an upturn for the stable.

7.17 Hamilton: Tipperary Tiger

This race has a lack of pace runners for a competitive sprint, but Tipperary Tiger is a prominent racer who runs this track well so could find himself in a good spot here.

He raced handily for a good win over course and distance last month under this good claiming jockey and is only 4lbs higher here. Tipperary Tiger placed in a 0-95 handicap off this mark last season and is definitely not overraced for a handicap sprinter with the prospect of potentially still more to come.

With sprint handicappers it is often the race being run to suit that is the deciding factor and Tipperary Tiger is one the few here who might well be suited by this event. It would certainly be no surprise if Karl Burke were to train another sprint handicap winner as he has been enjoying an excellent season that shows no sign of stopping.

7.24 Pontefract: Strongbowe

He produced a really good run to squeeze through and win a prestigious handicap at Carlisle last time and now that he has found winning form should enjoy a good spell this summer.

Strongbowe has run well off this mark and higher for some time and his unflattering form figures do not do him justice at all, as he has often finished very close up when finishing out of the frame. Off a 3lb higher mark, he can still be regarded as fairly handicapped.

The nature of a claiming handicap for older horses suggests most of Strongbowe’s rivals are exposed and, in many cases, out of form. He looks the one to be with.