Martin Dixon's Saturday tips: Go for Gold at Beverley

He ran a nice race on his penultimate start over a mile at Sandown, coming from the back of the field and not quite being able to land a blow despite finishing with a little something still in the tank. 

After that, he went up in distance to a mile and a quarter when sent up to Newcastle and he didn't quite seem to see out the trip. The return to this fast-run mile should suit and from a good-looking draw in stall five, I think he's worth an each-way bet at the 20/1 available at the time of writing.

This filly showed really bright speed to overcome stall 13 over this course and distance in early-May and improved on that form when fourth in the Marygate at York only eight days ago. She's obviously taking her racing well in the early part of her career.

She's got so much early speed, I think she'll be able to get into the ideal 'Beverley' position from stall four, up with the pace or potentially even taking them along. Given that she 's already shown that she can power up the hill at Beverley, she looks a little overpriced at the current 11/2 at the time of writing.

A horse picked up for 200,000 guineas at the Breeze-Ups, he's a son of Mehmas out of a five-furlong winner so he has a very fast, precocious pedigree and his debut effort at Ascot is already looking like strong form - the winner Military Code is 2-from-2 and Royal Ascot bound and the runner-up Fitzella was a wide-margin winner at Haydock on Friday afternoon.

He mixed it with those two for a long way and travelled strongly before just getting a little tired late on, as if that debut run would bring him forward. It might be that he doesn't need to improve a great deal on that form to win this, but I would nevertheless expect him to have come on for the experience.

The early betting market is headed by a Karl Burke-trained newcomer for Wathnan Racing and he's obviously got to be respected, but it isn't easy winning a race of this nature first time out, even if the same trainer and owner did it in this race last year with Shareholder! I think Old Is Gold sets a high standard here and I'm taking his experience to count.