FLIMSY TRUTH is the best bet of the day to gain a deserved success in the Lnnsdown Novices' Handicap Chase at Cheltenham.

Martin Weston's ex pointer was pitched in against some decent company under Rules last season and was unlucky not to win.

He looked set to spring a real surprise at Nottingham in February, falling when three lengths clear at the last, the race going to Andre Laval.

And at Strafford in May, he would surely have won but for a pound of overweight and clouting the last, going down by half a length to Herbert Buchanan.

Flimsy Truth was no match for the promising Potter's Bay over today's course and distance earlier in the month but he jumped well in the lead until giving way to David Nicholson's long odds on shot, losing by three and a half lengths.

He has a much more realistic chance in this handicap and should represent decent value.

American raider Serenity Prayer could spring a surprise in the £10,000 added Newent Hurdle. Bruce Miller's six year old is rather an unknown quantity here but he has won six of his last seven races across the Atlantic, including the US Supreme Championship Supreme Hurdle.

That would at least suggest that he is in a similar league to Miller's Lonesome Glory, who won on a similar Cheltenham foray four years ago.

At Huntingdon, Dublin Flyer should get back on track by winning the £29,000 added Peterborough Chase. Tim Forster's 10 year old was in the process of running a blinding race in the Murphy's Gold Cup on his Cheltenham reappearance when slipping up in the lead on the flat on the run towards the third last.

It was too early to say if he would have won but there was enough evidence to show that he remains a class act.

He has a terrific chance at today's weights and only Gales Cavalier, who has to give the selection 9lb, looks a serious threat.

Forster also has fine prospects with Teinein in the Tote Handicap Hurdle. The five year old is due to go chasing soon but slaughtered his rivals over hurdles on his seasonal debut at Worcester, very easily beating Mouse Bird four lengths.

That is solid form and it is hard to see a 7lb rise in the weights, preventing him from following up.