Racing tips: In These Shoes will come out on top in the forecast swampy Beverley ground

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Sad to see the Curragh's card go down due to a waterlogged track on Sunday, it's some summer we're having in the UK and Ireland, isn't it? I was looking forward to the Sunday card, but that's done and dusted now and Monday's racing is ahead of us.

Windsor 7:50 – Lady Dreamer 9/2 (1pt)

The ground is currently being described as good to soft at 4pm on Sunday, but Windsor is expecting a bit more rain before racing begins, and that might just send it over to soft. So like usual, you'll need horses who will handle these ground conditions and I think Lady Dreamer could be one of them.

She was initially withdrawn because of ‘unsuitable ground' at Yarmouth last year in her juvenile season, but when she ran on good to soft at Carlisle in the middle of June she ran a belter to finish 2nd. The RPR for that performance wasn't great, being -3lbs to her official rating, but I don't see it in the same light as the Racing Post assessor as the front two pulled 4L clear of the third, and the winner made it her 2nd win from two starts so she could be anything and could definitely be better than the 77 rating which she picked up after winning that race. The pedigree of Lady Dreamer would suggest soft ground will be fine, she is related to Bolthole who is a middle-distance horse, but put in the best performance of his life when finishing 2nd at Vichy earlier last week in Class 1 company on good to soft ground, so I get the impression the run at Carlisle wasn't a fluke that Lady Dreamer handled the conditions.

She seems to hit the ground hard with her running action, which is normally a good indicator that a horse will act on slow ground, and though she won on good to firm last time, I just think she might be better on a surface with a bit of juice. She is trained by Tom Ward who is a brilliant up-and-coming trainer and is in good form this season, as well as the last fortnight with 3 wins from 13 runners and he's had 15 from 113 runners this year. I also get the impression that they think she is better than what she is rated as she has gone off favourite three times in the last four races. Drawn in stall 5 she should be able to get a handy position not too wide as many of the lower-drawn horses don't tend to run from the front.

Beverley 7:00 – In These Shoes 6/1 (1pt EW WilliamHill)

There is going to be a very high chance that Beverley's night meeting gets called off due to the amount of rain they are expecting to have at the East Yorkshire track. The ground is already being described as ‘soft' and is at least expecting 8mm of rain, which might send the track into waterlog mode. However, hopefully it remains on and In These Shoes can grab us a win.

I thought she did very well to come from the position she did at Newmarket last time around. She was held up from off the pace, and though they went quick on the front end, she was still a couple of lengths behind the winner by the time they got racing and she managed to whittle that down to just a length and was staying on all the way. I think that will rate as a decent piece of form with the winner looking like a decent handicapper and recording a +10lb higher mark to their official rating. The front two pulled 3.25L clear of the third who had previously finished 5th/10 in a Listed race, so on paper, it bodes well.

Now In These Shoes is dropping back down to a Class 4 I think she will find this task much easier and will appreciate the extra half-furlong on this stiff track.

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