Carberry can be a Hero at Wetherby.

THE booking of Nina Carberry for Heroes in the Home-Tek Lady Riders' Handicap Hurdle at Wetherby tomorrow certainly catches the eye.

As a juvenile Heroes was trained by Geoff Huffer and, just like Cockney Rebel, ran in the silks of Phil Cunningham.

While he was never going to scale the heights of his famous stablemate, he has an early rating of 92 on the level.

Not many horses with such a handicap mark are sent hurdling these days so it is always interesting when they do.

As Heroes is now in the care of Tim Vaughan, a young Welsh trainer on the up, horses like him are certainly worth a second glance.

His three initial runs over timber did not amount to much - in fact there is very little encouragement at all that can be gleaned from the formbook.

However, Vaughan knows the time of day and he would not have bothered booking a rider of the calibre of Carberry for a mundane meeting like this.

Racing off a paltry mark of 88, it will be very disappointing if Heroes does not get involved on his handicap debut.

Micky Hammond has rarely had his horses in better form than they are now, and course specialist Manbow looks guaranteed to run a big race in the 21st May Is Ladies Day Handicap Chase.

The veteran 11-year-old has won four times at the West Yorkshire venue and has a liking for a sound surface.

He finished second to stablemate Dawn Ride last time and races of the same handicap mark again so he should be right in the mix.

Another huge plus is that Graham Lee will be in the saddle as the Irishman has been on board for all five of his career wins.

Hammond also has good claims with Divex in the Betfair Handicap Chase.

Like most of the horses in Hammond's Middleham yard, he is restricted to racing when the sun shines and his last three starts have all been at Musselburgh where the ground is predominantly good.

Having won over two and a half miles he maybe failed to stay three miles last time and dropped back in trip must go close again.

Rod Millman's True Red has bumped into two of the fastest juveniles to have been out so far this season and may find things easier in the EBF Maiden Stakes at Brighton..