Windsor best bet: Ludmilla has quality to challenge market leaders

After landing back-to-back winners at 8/1 and 5/1 before the weekend, racing pundit Steve Jones, who runs CD Systems on Tipstrr, is hoping to kick off the new week in similar fashion at Windsor.

20:20 Windsor: British EBF premier Fillies' Handicap (1 mile 2 furlongs)

Ludmilla, who is more lightly-raced than the early favourite, Zarga, looks sure to improve significantly for this step up to 10 furlongs.

This classy filly has finished never nearer than at the line in her two previous handicaps, firstly over seven furlongs at Newbury, and most recently, over the stiff mile at Sandown. Both were in Class 4 fillies' handicaps but both came on good-firm ground, which could well turn out to be quicker than ideal.

Significantly, Ludmilla was sent out for her career debut on soft ground at Newmarket on what was her only run as a two-year-old last October, when she narrowly failed to make a winning start to her career, going down by just a neck to Clive Cox's filly, Karsavina, on level terms over seven furlongs.

Karsavina is now rated 94, so Ludmilla looks very attractively treated off her current mark of just 78.

Ludmilla has a handy draw in stall 4 (two of the last three winners came out of this draw) and both her sire (Kingman) and her dam (Rostova) were high-class winners on right-handed tracks with cut in the ground.

With the likelihood of major improvement under these conditions, Ludmilla looks to have been underestimated off an unchanged mark on just her third handicap start.

• Tip advised bySteve Joneswho runsCD Systems Daily BargainonTipstrr

Of the others, it is no surprise to see Sir Michael Stoute's filly, Zarga, at the head of the early market following her two promising efforts so far this season, in which she was a never-nearer third of 11 over the shorter

8.3-furlong trip at Nottingham, followed by a close-up runner-up spot over today's distance at Redcar, where the only one able to beat her, Spring Fever, is now rated 95 (well ahead of today's standard).

Zarga, who was clear of the rest, would have finished closer with a clear run, so she must be a big player here, given her proven ability with cut in the ground.