CARNIVORE (2.50) bids for a quick-fire double at Redcar having already notched one victory so far this week on a successful raid to Newcastle.

David Barron's four-year-old hardly broke sweat when cruising to an effortless victory at the Tyneside venue last Wednesday, therefore it's hardly surprising he's been asked to turn out only a matter of only 72 hours later.

Striking while the iron is hot is flavour of the month in horse racing these days because it's a proven policy that pays off time and time again.

Barron clearly also subscribes to the theory, a point Carnivore may well hammer home by defying a 6lbs penalty to take the £10,000 Transmore Van Hire Handicap.

The feature event on the card, the £15,000 John Smith's Straight-Mile Championship Qualifier, might easily fall to the confirmed top-of-the-ground specialist, Jubilee Street (3.25).

Trainer Ann Duffield, who is already enjoying her best-ever Flat campaign to date with 25 winners on the board, picked up the 2005 final of the series with Jubilee Street off a handicap mark of 74.

The selection has since shot 10lbs up the ratings, partly as a result of his battling all-the-way Pontefract victory 13 days ago which although is going to make life more difficult, might not be sufficient to anchor him at the seaside track.

Bryan Smart's Hellvelyn flies the flag for Britain in the Independent Waterford Wedgwood Phoenix Stakes at the Curragh on Sunday.

The unbeaten Coventry Stakes winner, trained at Sutton Bank, faces six rivals in the Group One feature over six furlongs, headed by Holy Roman Emperor.

However, he had Aidan O'Brien's runner more than seven lengths back in 15th place at Royal Ascot.

Smart said: ''He's in good form.

"It's the first time he's gone out of the country so we'll have to see how he travels."