Guard Duty can give Martin Pipe a winning start to his summer job at Kempton Park today. His trainer has broken all records at the winter game, with scarcely a big jumps race to have eluded his grasp.

But far from hibernating at the end of the National Hunt season, he has also landed several notable Flat successes, particularly over long distances with the likes of Heros Fatal, Sweet Glow and Far Cry.

Fary Cry made a winning debut on the level for the trainer in the Queen's Prize at Kempton in 1999 and Guard Duty looks poised to emulate that feat today.

Pipe's four-year-old has only 8st to carry in a two-mile handicap whose modest standard reflects its relatively paltry £15,000 in added prize-money.

He would hold every chance judged solely on his fair efforts for Marcus Tregoning last year.

When account is taken of the progressively useful form he has shown over hurdles this winter, and of top apprentice Jamie Mackay's 5lb claim, the gelding looks positively thrown in at the weights.

With no doubts over his fitness or ability to handle the soft ground, Guard Duty is very much one to have on your side in what should prove a true test of stamina.

It is harder to be dogmatic about the betabet Bet Whatever, Whenever Wherever' Masaka Stakes, as many of its contestants are potentially a good deal better than they have shown so far.

But Time Way looks worth sticking with, such was the favourable impression she created in her two starts as a two-year-old.

After chasing home subsequent Group One winner Karasta in a maiden at Newmarket she had no problem going one place better in a similar event at Sandown, winning with any amount to spare in a fair field.

She was then put away for the winter by John Dunlop, whose patience is often rewarded with considerable improvement by his horses from two to three.

Time Way does not need to have progressed too much to go close on this step up to Listed class.

Stable-companion Chianti could well be worth taking a chance on in the Easter Stakes.

He looked potentially high class in winning his first two starts as a a juvenile and Dunlop is sure to have been working on the headstrong tendencies which spoilt his later efforts.

The Peter Harris-trained Eastern Breeze is one to look out for in the closing betabet Tax Free Commissions Free Betting' Handicap.

He hinted at plenty of ability in three outings necessary to qualify for a handicap mark as a juvenile.

An eye-catching third in a big field of maidens at Doncaster on his final start, he was gelded in the winter and can be expected to improve considerably this season.

Norman Mason is set for a successful return to Merseyside, seven days on from landing the Martell Grand National with Red Marauder.

He looks poised for a double at Haydock Park with the Aintree winner's half-brother Red Striker (in the Haydock Park Sponsorship Club Handicap Chase) and Tyneandthyneagain (Mossfields National Hunt Novices' Hurdle).