A Listed race on the all-weather to spice things up a bit, and one that Karl Burke has farmed three times in the last five years, with Marshman scoring by a length and a quarter last season.
He is back for more as a six-year-old and with his 100% course record (one out of one) I can see why he heads the early markets.
Whether 2/1 (as I write) is value is open to question, and it may be worth taking an each way chance on Golden Sickle, who had some useful form in South Africa and makes her debut for George Boughey here.
The top South African horses are better than many realise, with One Stripe an unlucky neck second in the Grade One Pegasus World Cup Turf at Gulfstream Park last Saturday, and my suggestion has form with the best of them at home.
Last seen being beaten a head in the Computaform Sprint at Turffontein in late March last year, she wears a first-time hood to sharpen her up this afternoon, and if she has settled in to her new surrounding have little doubt she is easily up to this level and more, with the all-weather an interesting place to give her a British debut.
Daily Sport Recommended Bet 1/2pt Each Way Golden Sickle 2.50pm Lingfield 10/1 William Hill