Is This For Real can make an impression on his hurdling debut in the Tractor Drivers Go Free Today! Maiden Hurdle at Market Rasen on Thursday.
Trained by Fergal O'Brien for Brighton & Hove Albion chairman Tony Bloom, the gelding won a point-to-point start for Georgina Ellis before changing hands and making his debut under rules with defeat in a bumper at Aintree on Boxing Day.
He ran once more last season when looking far more the ticket in a Kelso bumper in March, prevailing by 0.75-lengths over 3200m.
The five-year-old will be faced with a hurdle in public for the first time at Market Rasen but having shown clear signs of ability alongside the experience of his point-to-point run, he has the attributes to make his first try a winning one.
Moon Over America can strike for Nigel and Willy Twiston-Davies in the Book Boxing Day At The Races "National Hunt" Maiden Hurdle on the same card.
An Irish point-to-point winner who subsequently sold for £80,000, he made his debut under rules in a Ffos Las maiden in April to finish second to a smart looking horse of Olly Murphy's called Harbour Island.
His two outings to date point to some promise and the 4000m trip should be happily within the scope of a 4800m pointer.
Jamie Snowden's Roe And Coe can take the Melton Mowbray Market Novices' Handicap Chase over 4800m.
The Malinas seven-year-old won between the flags at five but struggled to follow up in several runs under rules earlier in the year and at the start of the new season.
He has often attracted a good bit of support, however, and things seemed to come together for him when he took a conditionals' handicap chase at Chepstow by 7 lengths last time out.
He is back in action relatively quickly to avoid a 6lb rise in rating and Joe Anderson's 3lb-claim is valid again out of a conditionals-only event, meaning plenty is in his favour if the prior win has given him the confidence to go again.
At Sedgefield Nicky Richards' La Zoubida appeals in the Fairlight Studio Workshops At Sedgefield Racecourse Mares' Maiden Hurdle.
The five-year-old's bumper career included winning a Market Rasen contest and finishing second to a Listed-winner in Kingston Queen before an unplaced run in the Grade Two mares' event at Aintree.
She can be forgiven the latter performance in what is always a highly competitive race, and is an interesting newcomer to the hurdling division.
In the Vickers.Bet Juvenile Hurdle it is Warren Greatrex's Lunar Orbit who can build on two placed runs over hurdles during the autumn to prevail for the first time after some near misses. - Press Association
TAB is betting on 2 UK meetings on Thursday. Here are the tips:
MARKET RASEN: Race 1: 14.10 IS THIS FOR REAL (NAP), Race 2: 14.40 Moon Over America, Race 3: 15.13 Roe And Co, Race 4: 15.48 Pescatorius, Race 5: 16.23 Times A Wastin, Race 6: 16.58 Belladinotte, Race 7: 17.30 White Noise.
SEDGEFIELD: Race 1: 14.50 Clean Getaway, Race 2: 15.24 Lunar Orbit, Race 3: 15.59 Independent Jimmy, Race 4: 16.34 La Zoudiba, Race 5: 17.09 Upfordebate, Race 6: 17.40 Devon Skies.
DOUBLE: Is This For Real and Moon Over America (Market Rasen, Races 1 and 2).