My American Beauty can show her rivals a clean pair of heels in the feature race at Ripon tomorrow.

Two outings this season should have brought Tim Easterby's five-year-old to concert pitch and she is strongly fancied to make it third-time-lucky in the £18,000 Tote Trifecta Sprint Fillies' Handicap.

In need of her unplaced first outing of the campaign at Thirsk, My American Beauty finished a good third to Roses Of Spring on her latest start over five furlongs at Redcar.

The step up to six furlongs will suit her even better tomorrow and she is napped to take all the beating in the hands of Kevin Darley.

In the £10,000 Middleham Trainers' Association Handicap, Intricate Web should go well under star Ryedale apprentice David Allan.

Trained by Eric Alston, whose horses are in good form, Intricate Web has been running creditably in defeat this season and is overdue a winning turn.

David Loder, who more than made his presence felt at Knavesmire where he saddled three winners during the week, can follow-up with Annambo in the Garden Racecourse Handicap.

Stepping up from maiden-race company to handicaps should be within the compass of Jamie Spencer's lightly-raced mount, who looks a fairly useful performer in the making. Annambo is fancied to have the edge over Kevin Darley's mount Pershaan north from John Dunlop's Sussex yard.

The in-form Bella Boy Zee, with two wins already notched, can make it three in the Welcome To Ripon Selling Stakes, while Sabbbeeh, Michael Jarvis's first two-year-old runner of the campaign, merits respect in the Go Sunday Racing In Yorkshire Maiden Stakes.

Tomorrow's tips:

RIPON

2-10 Bella Boy Zee; 2-40 Sabbeeh; 3-10 Intricate Web; 3-40 My American Beauty (NAP); 4-10 Musanid; 4-40 Annambo

Southwell

2-00 Just Muckin Around; 2-30 Manolito; 3-00 Henrianjames; 3-30 Bolton Barrie; 4-00 Picture Palace; 4-30 Midnight Creek; 5-00 Lord Perseus

Tomorrow's other meeting is at Fakenham

Updated: 12:05 Saturday, May 17, 2003