Horse Racing Tips for Exeter and Warwick on Friday

Here are the latest horse racing betting tips for Friday's racing from Exeter and Warwick from Racing Post tipster Robbie Wilders.

Friday's Horse Racing Betting Tips and Odds

14:30 Exeter - Alcedo @ 2/1
15:40 Warwick - Lanesborough @ 11/4
16:00 Exeter - Ascending Lark @ 10/11

14:30 Exeter - Alcedo @ 2/1

Venetia Williams has been ticking along at a healthy 23 percent strike-rate over the past fortnight and Alcedo is taken to keep up the good work in the 3m novice handicap chase at Exeter.

Alcedo beat the useful Navajo Indy in a maiden hurdle at this course in December 2023 before being highly tried in a Grade 2 at Haydock.

The selection found that race coming too soon in his development, but he was always likely to be a superior chaser, and he duly got off the mark on his second start over fences at Ffos Las two weeks ago with a game effort.

That intermediate trip seemed on the sharp side for Alcedo, who can brush aside a 4lb rise with Exeter’s stiff three miles looking sure to suit.

15:40 Warwick - Lanesborough @ 11/4

The hat-trick seeing Casa Loupi will have plenty of admirers in the 2m3f at Warwick, but he is passed over at short odds for the in-form Lanesborough, who may still have something up his sleeve from the handicapper.

The Ben Pauling-trained six-year-old had useful form in point-to-points and has shaped excellently on both starts in handicaps despite finishing runner-up each time.

Lanesborough finished like a train in the first of those at Hereford over two miles and looked a certainty to appreciate an extra half a mile at Chepstow.

He travelled all over the field but unfortunately couldn’t put the race to bed when running into an in-form rival with a nice profile himself. The selection will be winning before long and he deserves another shot.

16:00 Exeter - Ascending Lark @ 10/11

Harry Derham endured a testing middle part of the season but the tide has been turning lately and Ascending Lark is a strong fancy to collect the extended 2m mares’ handicap hurdle at Exeter.

Ascending Lark finished in the money in a bumper behind Brighterdaysahead for previous connections and has been well placed to remain unbeaten in three starts since joining Derham.

She landed her maiden hurdle and defied a penalty in a novice before striking on her handicap debut on her return from a 278-day absence at Newcastle in January.

That run should have brought her forward and a 4lb rise surely underestimates her. Her chief rivals here are better known as two-and-a-half milers, so she should have too much speed for them over this distance.

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