MASTER BEVELED'S useful change of pace will make him hard to beat in the Rossington Main Novices Hurdle at Doncaster today. The two miles course there offers more a test of speed than stamina, particularly when the ground is on the firm side off good.

This should suit Master Beveled, the six year old, is a useful miler on the Flat with a turn of foot smart enough to land him nearly £70,000 in prize money.

He showed he lost little of his zest with a good second at Lingfield last Saturday on his warm up for this £15,000 added race and he has looked a smart hurdler in the making, in his three outings to date over timber.

He quickened well to score in good style at Ayr and Windsor and there was no disgrace in his failure to concede 12lb to Mack the Knife at Haydock last time out.

David Evans will have his fingers crossed that the meeting survives an an inspection at seven o'clock this morning, as Master Beveled looks set to give him his biggest win to date over jumps.

Jim Old could be the trainer to follow at a very soft Lingfield where he has good prospects of a double with the mudlarks Supreme Genotin and Plastic Supreme Genotin, is well worth another chance in the Holtye Maiden Hurdle. The seven year old looked a smart prospect when he ran away with a National Hunt Flat race at Sandown last season revelling in the testing conditions and spreadeagling his field.

He fell at the first when a heavily backed favourite on his hurdling debut at Leicester early this month and was ridden very much with an eye to restoring his confidence at Ascot four days later. But there was no mistaking the promise of his seventh behind Ashwell Boy under very considerate handling, at, Ascot and he, can start to fulfil his potential with a win now that he is dropped in class.

Grand National entry Plastic Spaceage will be a rank outsider at Aintree in March but show enough when fourth at Warwick, to suggest he can take the Felcourt Handicap Chase.