Horse racing tips: Three for Carlisle from Dave Nevison

It's Carlisle’s big day of the year on Wednesday, with the historic Stablemate by Agma Carlisle Bell Handicap taking centre stage at a course that always seems to be well supported, and bucks the trend of small-runner fields.

This is one of my favourite meetings to try to land a multiple, and hopefully these three will all run well. Best of luck, and don't forget to watch all the action live on Racing TV.

A host of last time out winners are among the contenders here, including Jackhammer who has won two of the past three runnings of this race, but none look to have the upside of Albegrey.

Tim Easterby’s relatively lightly-raced four-year-old was a well-backed winner at the latest meeting here, so clearly goes well at this track, and won quite easily that day, so looks capable of defying a penalty.

Albegrey has run well on decent going before, so this ground shouldn’t be an issue, and David Allan, who won on him last time out, keeps the ride.

Has gradually run himself into winning form on turf this season and while he may never be as good as he is on artificial surfaces, he has the capacity to improve further on turf, so could still be well handicapped.

I tipped United Front when he won at Beverley recently under a cracking ride from Oisin Murphy, and while he races over half a furlong further here, this is the stiffest of tracks. With a strong pace also virtually guaranteed, things look ideal for a strong run here.

Stall seven is not too high, either, and Mick Appleby has decided to use Frederick Larson’s 3lb claim to offset his climb in the weights for his latest victory.

Ian Williams runs two fancied runners in this race, but hold-up performer Dream Harder has the better draw and looks the one to side with.

The selection was well fancied at York last time but came up against the rapidly improving Kihavah - who has won another valuable handicap since - and probably he had little chance there, so did well to finish second.

He deserves a change of luck as he didn’t get the best of runs at Chester on his previous outing, either, and I believe that a fast run race over 12 furlongs, on a stiff track, will suit him perfectly.

He gets all those circumstances here and should go very well off a rating he looks well capable of winning off. Ben Curtis a strong jockey booking, too.