Break The Rules appeals

PUNTERS ON the lookout for winners at Chester can do far worse than blindly follow any previous winners around the tight Roodeye turns, such is the specialist nature of the track.

Fitting nicely into this category, Break The Rules appeals greatly in the opening Yellow Label Claiming Stakes and is the nap selection.

After two good victories at the start of the season he now looks pretty much handicapped to the hilt and this switch to claiming company comes as little surprise.

The step up in trip to a mile and a half will definitely suit, given the nature of the gelding's dour performances over hurdles last winter.

Kevin Darley was on board for his victory at the May meeting when the five-year-old came from an impossible position to take the race on the line from Kuala Lipis by a neck and has been booked again for the ride here.

On the same card, Pure Coincidence must go well after the favourable impression created by Geoff Lewis' colt on the fibresand at Southwell last time when he handed out a comfortable three-and-a-half-length beating to Legs Be Friendly.

Having shown great improvement that day, he should have too much fire for Jack Berry's Sandside, already twice a winner.

However, Berry can get a winner in the shape of Selhurstpark Flyer in the Le Prix De La Grande Dame Rated Stakes.

Carrying only a 3lb penalty for his win in the Wokingham Stakes, Berry's gelding looks something of a good thing and drawn in stall three he is almost guaranteed to get his normal prominent pitch early on.

This looks to be a less competitive heat than Selhurstpark Flyer encountered last week and with his trainer happy that the gelding is fully recovered and ready to run another big race, he must go close.

Bollin Frank looks an interesting proposition in the Crowther Homes Carlisle Bell.

With Tim Easterby's stable beginning to find form after a slow start to the season, the form of the Rambo Dancer entire at Haydock last time, when second to Band On The Run, looks even better.

The handicapper has raised him 2lb for that run but he still looks fairly treated and the mile on this ground should suit Bollin Frank fine.

He might just have been laid out for this race and can prevent the £10,000-added prize going south courtesy of Mark Tompkins' Topatori.