Rachel Candelora's top tips for Wednesday: Achill can strike again

This weekend is a feast for racing fans with Festival Trials Day at Cheltenham, Sky Bet Chase Day at Doncaster, and the Pegasus World Cup races at Gulfstream Park in Florida.

This year, in addition to the third running of the Group One Pegasus World Cup, on dirt, a new Group One Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational has been created with a purse of $7 million, with $3 million going to the winner.

This nine-and-a-half-furlong turf test has proved popular around the world with Aidan O’Brien sending Magic Wand over, as well as Japanese interest with Aerolithe.

On the dirt, the $9 million Pegasus World Cup has attracted the top dirt horses in North and Central America with the reigning Breeders’ Cup Champs Accelerate and City of Lights looking for one final big prize before heading off to stud.

There is some competitive action at Lingfield and Catterick on Tuesday and I like the chances of these four:

Chica De La Noche has become what I like to call “a real Placepot horse” as she always seems to turn up and run her race.

She is also developing into a 7f specialist – two of her three career wins have come over this distance - including here at Lingfield on her penultimate start.

She is only 2lbs higher now and has since run well in defeat at Kempton.

Another plus is that Adam Kirby, who is a perfect one from one on this mare, is back aboard the five-year-old mare.

This well-related, unexposed six-year-old looks to have been found an ideal opportunity to record his first career success.

The form of his close third at Hereford last time out has already been franked as the winner, Star of Lanka, ran well to finish fourth in the Lanzarote and the runner-up, Geordie B, has won at Lingfield since.

Another huge plus is that rider Jonjo O’Neill Jr, who has to be one of the best 5lb around, is on board.

I mentioned last week that ten-year-old’s have a stellar record in Veterans’ Chases and Achill Road Boy looked rejuvenated when equipped with blinkers for the first time at Kelso this month as he spread-eagled the opposition to score by 18 lengths.

Not only is he receiving weight from all of his rivals, he has also run well after a quick turnaround before, so that is not a worry here.

The in-form team of John Gosden and Robert Havlin have several high-profile runners at Lingfield and Kempton on Wednesday, but for me Vandella is the most interesting and most likely winner.

This 280,000gns purchase, who is a half-sister to a pair of Group Three winners, ran a solid race on debut when she was beaten by a horse with previous racecourse experience.

In what doesn’t look to be a deep race, she should be able to find enough improvement and open her account.