Horse racing tips for Tuesday: Betting expert Dave Nevison shares his best bets for Exeter

It’s the quietest week of the season, with most jump jockeys praying they don’t take a fall and jeopardise their chances of Festival glory next week.

These three look pretty safe conveyances and hopefully can get round in front.

An expensive purchase from point to points, the £85,000 price tag looked like money down the drain until his latest start after a four-month break.

He was backed off the boards into 2-1 favourite and looked a completely different horse, jumping well over Wincanton’s stiff fences and taking up the running on the bridle three fences out before easing away after the last. His backers never broke sweat I imagine, and those who got fancy early prices had a great day.

He has a 7lb penalty but looks a horse who has matured and on the way to better things. He is confidently expected to follow up in another weak contest for Christian Williams, who is proving himself an excellent and patient target trainer.

He had tumbled in the weights over a couple of seasons but has definitely rediscovered his mojo off lowly marks recently, enjoying a rich vein of form in line with most of his yard.

Kevin Brogan will definitely be on his game if he’s in with a shot after the last, as the jockey slipped up last time when thinking Sandford Castle had done enough before getting caught close home as his mount idled.

The 11-year-old got raised again for defeat last time - annoying for connections - but he is still significantly lower than former marks. He certainly looks able to defy a rating of 92 and track and trip here trip are no issue.

There are few trainers in better form currently than Sam Thomas and he looks to have found a very modest race for this horse to hopefully break his duck over hurdles.

Powerstown Park was dropped 5lbs for pretty good comeback over hurdles last July and, after another absence, showed his wellbeing with a good effort in a ‘Jumpers’ Bumper’ last month. Doukarov finished a short head behind him there and has since come out and won.

He has clearly been difficult to keep sound and race regularly, but all the signals suggest that he is in a good place at present. It is difficult to see many of his rivals in the same sort of form and he clearly has a great chance here.