THERE ARE occasions in betting when one has to fly in the face of logic. Granted, today's cards at Musselburgh, Hexham and Southwell serve a purpose but to head for the turf accountant armed with a pocketful of fivers would be tantamount to financial suicide.

There will be other days with better races and more reliable favourites. On Musselburgh's card, where good horses are few and far between, the Forth FM spring handicap is a classic example.

Sure, Here Comes Herbie has a favourite's chance. Equally, he is eminently beatable, even in this grade and will represent poor value.

So a small "chance" each way bet on Here Comes Herbie's stablemate and likely rank outsider King Of The Horse may not be as crazy as it first appears.

Trainer Will Storey has landed plenty of big priced touches over the years and knows how to get an animal fit at home when the need arises.

King Of The Horse was a winner for David Loder in his early career but was not good enough to be a Newmarket star and soon found himself at Storey's Consett base.

Backing him here is a bit like trying an outrageous lob from the halfway line, but he stays and has a featherweight with good claimer Paul Fessey up.

Another "shrewdy" at this level is David Chapman, and his Kass Alhawa could be primed to strike, in the Eskmill Selling Handicap. He almost certainly needed the run when a never nearer nine to Abstone Queen over seven furlongs at Catterick last month and looks on a winning mark.