La Rav revs up impressively as Cumani’s star plays catch-up

● Cambridgeshire is a potential target

There is some cracking prize money on offer at Chelmsford with La Rav looking primed to pick up a large slice of it in the totequadpot Handicap. Trained by Luca Cumani, pictured,havingbeenunraced at two he has quickly made up for lost time. Fifth of ten in a decent Newmarket maiden in May, he has won his next two starts looking like a horse with a bright future.

He broke his maiden at Salisbury in fine style, coming home four and a half lengths clear.

While that form can be picked apart somewhat, he proved next time out it was no fluke. Admittedly it was only a small field at Newbury, but racing over a mile after winning over seven furlongs the time before, he ran very keenly in front.

Nevertheless, he put the race to bed a fair way out, winning by more than three lengths.

He won his opening handicap off 85 and has been put up 8lb, but on just his fourth ever run he is one of the least exposed in the field and is trained by a man who excels with this type.

A good run here could even put him in the shake-up for the Cambridgeshire.

A first-time visor might spark Roger Varian’s Prosper back to life in the totetrifecta Fillies’ Handicap, another race with £25,000 on offer.

She looked promising earlier in the campaign when second to Son Of The Stars and winning at Sandown.

Upped in class since, she has been ultimately disappointing but down in the handicap and with the headgear on might be the time to catch her.

Varian’s Zeelander is exceptionally well bred and should step up markedly on his unplaced debut effort of last season in the £10 Free At 32Red.com Maiden at Nottingham. Move To The Front is not one of Clive Cox’s stable stars but starts life out of maidens on a fair looking mark in the Gallowgate Nursery Handicap at Leicester.

He was staying on at the end of six furlongs last time out so this step up in trip to seven should suit.

Mark Johnston appears to have found a very winnable opportunity for Pumblechook in the CNG Handicap at Catterick.

A blatant non-stayer over two and a quarter miles last time out, back over a mile and six is far more within his compass.

He could need the ground to dry up as his Newmarket win by tenlengths came on quick ground.