Racing from Tom O'Ryan

Actor Steve Huison, one of the stars of the block-busting film The Full Monty, will be at Beverley tomorrow to carry out the official opening of the new £800,000 Weighing Room complex.

Huison, who will cut the tape at 1.15pm, an hour before the first race, will also make the presentation to the winning rider in the La Femme Lady Amateur Riders' Handicap - and Emma Ramsden could well find herself the recipient.

The stylish Miss Ramsden teams up with Marylebone in this seven and a half furlongs contest. This four-year-old has good prospects after his recent fourth-placed effort behind Birchwood Sun over an arguably inadequate six furlongs at Carlisle.

The Irwins Have It Built Conditions Stakes is tomorrow's feature race at Beverley and my vote goes to Ya Malak, who crowned himself in glory when dead-heating for first place in the Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes on Knavesmire last August.

David Nicholls' high-class sprinter finished unplaced in last week's Palace House Stakes at Newmarket, but will surely have benefitted from that comeback outing.

Rum Lad can lift the William Hill Handicap for Settrington trainer, John Quinn.

Three-times a winner last season, Rum Lad gave notice of an imminent return to winning form at Pontefract recently when staying on well to finish third to the gambled-on Pleading in a competitive handicap. He can take the major honours tomorrow.

The Rothmans Royal North South Challenge Series Handicap Qualifier, could well provide Night Of Glass with another success.

Les Eyre's gelding has been in unstoppable form this term and completed a four-timer at Thirsk last Saturday when beating Warningford by one and a quarter lengths.

In the Gadies Painting Handicap, Mondragon can lift the prize for Mary Reveley and Tony Culhane so unlucky with fast-finishing runner-up Turnpole, who met traffic problems in Wednesday's Chester Cup.

Mondragon is not in the same league as Turnpole but is a reasonable stayer, who shaped pretty well when finishing third on his reappearance at Newcastle last month.

Tomorrow's televised action comes from Lingfield, a card highlighted by the Havana Horse (UK) Oaks Trial and the Coloroll Derby Trial, two significant stepping stones to next month's Epsom Classics.

Shimaal, who represents the Godolphin stable of Saeed bin Suroor, successful with Cape Verdi in last Sunday's 1,000 Guineas, can land the fillies' event, while the Derby trial may be best left to another Frankie Dettori mount, the Luca Cumani-trained High-Rise.

Unbeaten in two outings, High-Rise was particularly impressive when scoring at Pontefract last month.

Tom Tate's Rioja, successful at Newmarket on his reappearance, can go close in the £50,000 Tote Sprint Handicap but my preference and Nap choice is Surveyor, trained by John Dunlop. Surveyor is a colt who promises to have a lucrative sprinting campaign ahead of him.

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