Montevetro backed to get off the mark at Wolverhampton

Billy Loughnane has a quite incredible strike-rate when riding for Godolphin trainer Charlie Appleby and can improve it further on Montevetro in the Create Your Bet Builders At Midnite Maiden Stakes at Wolverhampton on Tuesday.

Despite having had over 50 rides for the Newmarket stable, he has won on half of them.

With a sample size like that it would be folly not to give them close consideration when they team up and this Mehmas gelding has strong claims on the form book in any case.

He made his debut earlier this month at Chelmsford having been unraced at two but had no answer to a heavily backed newcomer.

Having cost 800,000 guineas this half-brother to the Irish Guineas winner Mac Swiney will surely know a lot more now.

Loughnane has also been booked by Paul Midgley for American Bay in the Midnite: Built For 2026 Not 2006 Handicap.

He finished third, beaten less than 2 lengths, on his first run for the best part of 200 days recently so can be expected to strip a good deal fitter.

James Tate's Time To Take Off impressed when making a winning debut on turf at Nottingham in October and can remain unbeaten in the Midnite Aint Your Grandads Bookie Novice Stakes.

The second won next time out adding substance to the form and Tate was quoted in a recent stable tour as saying he had high hopes for the filly this year.

Kim Bailey and Mat Nichols' Hillberry Hill can come to the fore in the Easter Sunday Family Fun Day Novices' Hurdle at Southwell.

A five-year-old son of Kingston Hill, the Irish-bred gelding makes his stable debut for new connections having previously been trained in Ireland by Margaret Mullins.

There he ran twice, finishing sixth on his racecourse debut in a Clonmel maiden hurdle before winning next time out in a longer-distance Thurles contest.

He subsequently changed hands for a sum of £70,000 in January and now lines up for the first time in the White Noise silks recently seen winning at Cheltenham.

He takes on a trip of 4000m again and having looked well suited to that increased stamina ask on his final run in Ireland, he should be well placed to pose a real threat here.

On the same card the same stable can land the Visit The Bistro In Seasons Restaurant Novices' Limited Handicap Hurdle with Kylenoe Dancer.

The mare may be returning from a lengthy absence but her two prior runs for the yard were encouraging when she joined after a spell with Paul Henderson.

She will have to blow away some cobwebs having not been seen since May last year but carries bottom weight to ease the task. - Press Association

TAB is betting on 3 UK meetings on Tuesday. Here are the tips.

SOUTHWELL: Race 1: 16.00 Smurfette, Race 2: 16.30 Classical Sting, Race 3: 17.00 Music Song, Race 4: 17.30 Jack The Savage, Race 5: 18.00 Hillberry Hill, Race 6: 18.30 Codetalker, Race 7: 19.00 Kylenoe Dancer.

TAUNTON: Race 1: 16.15 Falls Of Acharn, Race 2: 16.45 Lady Caro, Race 3: 14.15 Daany, Race 4: 17.45 A Definite Getaway, Race 5: 18.15 Knock Off Sox, Race 6: 18.45 Bobbi's Beauty, Race 7: 19.15 Arms Par.

WOLVERHAMPTON: Race 1: 18.23 Quick Turn, Race 2: 18.55 Lexington Express, Race 3: 19.30 Henery Hawk, Race 4: 20.00 MONTEVETRO (NAP), Race 5: 20.30 Optimistic, Race 6: 21.00 Black Cab, Race 7: 21.30 American Bay, Race 8: 22.00 Time To Take Off, Race 9: 22.30 Mollie Foster.

ALL TO COME: Montevetro and Time To Take Off (Wolverhampton, Races 4 and 8).