Friday horse racing tips: Best bets at Aintree Grand National Festival Day 2 from Tom Lunn

Friday horse racing tips

• AINTREE
  1.45: Handstands 15/8 (1pt)
  2.20: Wade Out 7/1 Each-way (1pt)
  2.55: Tripoli Flyer 7/2 (1pt)
  3.30: Jonbon 4/6 (3pts)
  4.05: Bad 12/1 each-way (0.5pt)
  4.40: Califet En Vol 4/1 (1.5pts)
  5.15: Celtic Dino 10/1 each-way (1.5pts)

Handstands

Aintree does not disappoint this year and the first race of Friday sees another thrilling contest.

Caldwell Potter makes a quick return after storming home to win at Cheltenham Festival to claim the Golden Miller Novices' Chase in some style.

It showed that he could be well suited to this step up in trip, but as always a return from Cheltenham demands a lot.

Handstands has beaten Jango Baie twice before which has obviously worked out very well form-wise, won at 3m and looks set to continue his solid form of six wins from eight under rules here.

He's versatile ground-wise too which is always a bonus round here making him tough to side against.

Dancing City is interesting returning from a disappointing sixth place at Cheltenham where he just looked to not enjoy things.

His record and previous form suggests that is certainly just a rare run having gone into the race with four straight wins, each of which were very impressive.