Six of the best: top tips for Wednesday’s action on Racing TV

He is rated just 53, so Gunnerside probably needs plenty in his favour to notch another handicap win, but he looks like he may have an excellent opportunity here. 

Grant Tuer is finishing off the Flat season in decent form and Gunnerside goes well here at Musselburgh. He will get the strong pace he needs to aim at and has hit lucky with the draw in stall one. 

He won over 5f earlier in the year but was a course and distance winner last season under Oliver Stammers. I don’t think the trip will be any issue. (DN) 

It’s Grassrooots Series Final Day at Nottingham on Wednesday and there are five £30,000 handicaps over range of trips. 

This race is a 6f contest and the one to beat is the top weight Northern Spirit, who 

acts well in the mud, has proven track form and arrives at the top of his game after successive wins at Southwell and York. 

That latter success came in an 18-runner affair 24 days ago and the form has been boosted, with the fourth and fifth, (Fantasy Master, who reopposes) winning since. 

Northern Spirit has gone up 11lb for his past two performances but he’s a four-year-old on the up and can go in again. (AS) 

Like so many of Fast Company’s progeny, this gelding is in his element when the mud is flying. All four of his wins on turf have been achieved on either soft or heavy ground. 

He’s going to get his favoured conditions here and looked on good terms with himself when coming from last to first at Chester on his penultimate start. The form looks solid, too, with the second and fourth winning since. 

Corsican Caper could only finish fifth at Chester eight days later but that can be attributed to him falling asleep in the stalls and giving the opposition about an eight-length headstart. He was always swimming against tide after that but kept on to be beaten under five lengths. 

Corsican Caper is a habitual slow starter but last time was extreme, even by his standards. If he can get away a bit better here, then he can swiftly resume winning ways. (AS) 

Bittalemon is never going to live up to her illustrious pedigree and expensive price tag but needs to win a race to at least confirm some residual paddock value. 

She is getting closer to a victory with each run and this modest, though competitive handicap might well be her opportunity. 

Bittalemon went well in the first-time blinkers when runner-up at Epsom last time out and clearly handles a tricky track and soft conditions, so shouldn’t have any difficulty with the terrain. 

She has gone back up 2lb in the weights for last time but is still not completely exposed and there certainly are not many in this field that have hidden talent. (DN) 

Tom Ward’s filly beat the likely favourite here, Chalk Mountain, at Newbury a couple of starts ago and can repeat the dose on 6lbs better terms. 

Chalk Mountain has gone on to win twice since that race but hasn’t had to improve much to do so and has gone up 8lbs in the ratings. 

State Flag has followed up with another good run at Newbury and has only gone up 2lb since her win. She has won on the all-weather at Lingfield, so the surface is also fine. The likely strong pace will also be ideal. (DN) 

This £25,000 conditions’ race offers an excellent opportunity for Willem Twee to enhance his already very good record on the all-weather. 

He overcame a slowish start to win a competitive handicap off a mark of 106 at Wolverhampton last time and before that had been a fine third behind Montassib and Kinross on level weights in the Group Three Chipchase Stakes at Newcastle. 

He faces nothing of their calibre here and I wouldn’t worry about his two-month break as he’s gone well fresh. Oisin Murphy rides and James Fanshawe has just enjoyed his best month in terms of winners (12 in September at a strike-rate of 23 per cent) since 2013. (AS)