Monday's selections: Follow-up success looks a picnic for Jellystone

A busy day on Racing TV on Monday with Ireland moving to two fixtures a day for the first time since the resumption. Apparently, there's some other big meeting taking place in the south later this week, but at Racing TV headquarters, we'll only have eyes for Thirsk and Redcar.

I'm not being serious, of course. Royal Ascot will dominate the week for punters and purists alike, even if you'll have to go elsewhere to watch it. Sure, it won't look quite the same on the TV, but as a non-top-hat wearer, a non-aristocrat and non-champagne drinker (can't stand the stuff), I can live without all of that anyway. That said, I shall be endeavouring to keep stakes as low as possible, personally, having found the form of some of the biggest yards quite hard to read in the last couple of weeks.

One of the peculiarities of the new normal is that Windsor's usual pre-Royal Ascot meeting on Monday night has now become a mid-Royal Ascot meeting on Tuesday night. Windsor always used to be perfect way to warm up for a week of brilliant racing and you could usually rely upon the fact that Richard Hannon (or Richard Hannon) would be suitably refreshed having spent the evening with a few of his owners to give an honest appraisal of his yard's chances for the rest of the week.

The Monday night Royal Ascot warm-up card is now Kempton Park, where I've a couple of selections that will hopefully aid the punting bank for the week ahead.

David Simcock's stable is one of those still to find top speed since the return to action and his Nathaniel filly Float is a (forecast) market-leader I'm happy to take on in the Unibet Casino Maiden Fillies' Stakes.

There was undoubtedly plenty of promise in her sole start last season, but sending her for a debut over a mile in the mud at Yarmouth didn't scream out speed and I'd be surprised if she doesn't end up wanting a mile and a half or more this season.

Owen Burrows has had a winner and two seconds from six runners since the restart and I'll chance his filly Hawaajis, despite the sense of deja-vu I'm getting. (Is it just me or was there another Hawaajis about 25 years ago in the same colours? Maybe trained by John Dunlop?)

A daughter of Dansili, her 100-rated dam has thrown only two horses to make it to the track and one of those won last year's Irish Cambridgeshire off 91. I'd be surprised to see Sir Michael Stoute's Sea The Stars filly Brideshead wound up too much first time out, so Hawaajis is good enough for me.

He'll no doubt be favourite, but with a couple of interesting handicap debutants appearing against him, I'd be surprised if the market was too carried away with Jellystone. The bare form of his win at Yarmouth last week was undeniably ordinary.

Yet there was something about the way he put his head down and rolled for Rob Hornby that I really liked and if ridden similarly prominently here, I can see him being too tough to catch in the Unibet Handicap, especially with the fitness edge under his belt.

It's a source of selfish personal regret that the weather forecast looks so good for Pontefract's card tomorrow. When the sun's out, it's a fine, fine place to watch horses racing.

I give more weight than many to the advantage conveyed by racecourse experience with two-year-olds at this very early stage of the season. Unfortunately, both Lockdown and Lost My Sock went into the tracker after their debuts, but my preference is very much for the latter in the British Stallion Studs EBF Maiden Stakes that opens the Ponte card.

Unusually strong in the market for a Tim Easterby debutant on his first start at Newcastle, David Allan was pushing along from a very early stage as he looked pretty clueless compared to some of his rivals.

But he really got the idea from halfway and the early signs are that was a fair contest. The winner goes for the Norfolk on Wednesday, the eighth came out to finish fourth of nine at Wolverhampton, and the tenth-home went very close in another race too.