Bank on Solicitor at Southwell.

Byline: ARGUS 

SOLICITOR can lay down the law at Southwell.

While unlikely to make punters overnight millionaires, Mark Johnston's colt is virtually unopposable in the Bet In-Running - Betdaq Median Auction Maiden Stakes.

Chief cause for optimism stems from his eyecatching debut performance at Yarmouth.

The choicely-bred juvenile showed understandable naivety from pillar to post, but still shaped encouragingly to take fourth behind three good sorts from Newmarket.

With Johnston's horses renowned for improving rapidly following a debut run, Solicitor holds obvious claims in what is a pretty grim maiden.

Iron Out can put to bed a frustrating sequence of results in the Play Golf At Southwell Golf Club Handicap.

Although second on his last three outings, it would be a trifle cruel to accuse the three-year-old of being ungenuine.

Iron Out has finished in the frame 10 times in 18 starts, scoring once, which perhaps explains his inability to win more races.

And though a career-high mark is obviously a concern, that potential mooring is offset by the dearth of valid rivals in this onemile contest. Stretch The Truth can land a knockout blow for the Irish in the Prince of Wales Stand Novices' Handicap Hurdle at Fakenham.

Tom Taaffe's five-year-old showed up well over two miles at Punchestown last month, finishing second to Takestan, and can defy a considerable ramp in the weights.

Consistency would not be his forte, but Taaffe's gelding has enough raw pace to make his mark against these moderate rivals.

Lindy Lou is one of the more interesting types on show at Folkestone.