Your time to Fly to victory at Chelmsford

Fly The Nest can rule the roost in the CCR Handicap at Chelmsford tomorrow.

Tony Carroll’s admirably consistent five-year-old was only a head away from making his first trip to this course a winning one last week, when just failing to peg back an allthe-way winner.

He returns over the same distance of a mile – and from just a 1lb higher rating, there is every reason to anticipate another big run.

Fly The Nest will certainly be deserving if he manages to go one better, having finished runner-up in six of his last nine starts with just one win to show for his efforts.

He was beaten an aggregate of just three lengths into second on all those occasions combined, spread over the last 12 months.

Resolution does not appear to be an issue, however, and in all but one race, when Lingfield did not suit at the start of the year, Fly The Nest has run as if this trip is spot on.The

return of Tom Mar- quand, with whom he was successful at Kempton in December, is of course no detriment and much seems in place for a second career victory.

An hour later, Dawn View also has a fine opportunity to light up the evening card with a breakthrough success.

Stuart Williams’ filly could not quite contain Pilot Wings over course and distance when she had to settle for second as a beaten favourite last month.

She ran on with some purpose and promise, though, having failed to settle ideally in the early stages.

It was her best performance to date – and having gone back up by just 2lb, still offset by Marco Ghiani’s claim, she may be about to crack the winning code in this modest grade.

Velvet Vista has already done so, and has obvious prospects of landing her hattrick from the bottom of the weights in the opening Racing Welfare Handicap.

It took her 19 attempts to open her account, over this course and distance last week.

But the runner-up won at the weekend and, not to be outdone, so too did Velvet Vista, easily brushing aside her penalty at Wolverhampton.

She has another to contend with here, but still receives weight all round in this better class and may well be hard to stop after belatedly hitting form with such a vengeance.

Useful sprinter Verne Castle operates at a significantly higher level already, and is of interest in the closing tote. co.uk Now Never Beaten By SP Handicap. The eight-year-old has mustered just one victory in his last 21, in this same race 12 months ago. But that is a misleading statistic, because he remains highly consistent and competitive.