Last Friday at Lansdown was not the place for favourites or good weather, so could there be a connection?

Just one fancied filly did as she was expected to as the seriously backed Vanishing Grey ran on where it mattered for Manton trainer Brian Meehan.

There will be seven more chances for favourites to come home on Monday afternoon and there must also be some chance of seeing jockey Kieren Fallon at Lansdown too.

Off the racecourse since July 2006 due to alleged race-fixing, which the judge found no case to answer, and subsequently given an 18-month drugs suspension by French racing authorities, the former champion jockey was cleared to race again on Tuesday.

Fallon said: "I hopefully will be fit enough. I have been working hard but it is different when you are race riding."

He now has booked rides on the all-weather at Lingfield and Kempton tomorrow but with only three small meetings on Monday – Folkestone, Newcastle and Bath – there is obviously a possibility he will be at Lansdown.

If so there will be plenty of choice, though as the last race is the Freebets Maiden Handicap for Gentlemen Amateur Riders he wouldn't get the leg up in that one.

At the time of going to press, the best bet in that affair is Hereford trainer Richard Price's Arab League. Originally trained by Mark Johnston at two, the gelding didn't run in 2008 but has returned to the track with Price and has now finished second in his last four races.

That seems reliable enough and reliability is a real asset when there's an amateur on board.

The first race on Monday is at 2.10pm, with the last going at 5.10pm.