Horse racing tips: Breath can leave rivals panting at Kempton

It is certainly a good move having just a six-race card on Wednesday evening - and it would be even better if I could get this Trixie up before watching the football!

He’s running well this season and is only 1lb higher than for his recent course and distance success.

Quick Breath ran very well off this mark last time when second to the bang in-form Tahitian Prince, getting going just a little too late to seriously challenge. He obviously ran well over a mile there, but he’s now back down to the trip he has won over three times at this track and he should also have a decent pace to run at which suits him well.

Jonathan Portman has booked useful apprentice Bradley Harris, who takes off 5lb even against other claimers in this race. That will be useful in this tight handicap.

I put him up at 20/1 last time after a long absence and thought I might have landed on one when he was backed into 15/2, but it was not to be. However, I have left him lingering in the tracker as I’m convinced there’s a handicap in him soon and he has things in his favour here.

I don’t think he needs to make the running at all and was probably fresh and keen at Salisbury, but unlike many longer-distance handicaps there does look to be guaranteed pace here. I think the two-mile trip will suit very well, and he was dropped 2lb for his recent run when he was already well-enough handicapped in my view.

David Menuisier is turning into another one of those trainers who is seemingly in permanently decent form and his horses are high on my list for handicaps.

Debut winners often seem to be overrated by the handicapper and Rogue Assassin certainly seems to have fallen into that category after winning at first-time success at 40/1.

He might have been overfaced in his handicap runs so far but drops into 0-65 company here and his bang in-form trainer has switched to blinkers for the first time instead of cheekpieces.

Rogue Assassin is related to several horses who stayed a mile so I don’t anticipate the trip being an issue – in fact, it may well be a positive despite some poor attempts so far and he was certainly doing his best work at the finish last time. A good run certainly looks on the cards.