MELLOW Jazz can provide trainer Ed Dunlop with a rare success at an all-weather track in the Ladbroke All-Weather Trophy Handicap (Qualifier) at Lingfield tomorrow.

His trainer has had a mixed season, sending out 51 winners without unearthing any obvious stars of the future.

And it is almost two years since Dunlop last had a runner on an all-weather surface, Other Club winning twice at Wolverhampton in 1998.

It looks potentially significant that he intends to kick off again with Mellow Jazz, who has been off the course since finishing third at Redcar in May.

The diminutive filly may have found the soft ground there and on her other start this season at Warwick against her.

She travelled well at Redcar until coming off the bridle close home andappeals as the sort of horse who will be able to translate her form to all-weather tracks successfully.

Fitness is rarely a problem for Dunlop's charges and despite her long absence from the track Mellow Jazz can take advantage of what looks a fair handicap mark.

All Good Things made an eye-catching debut for his new stable at Goodwood in September and is an interesting contender for his division of the Lingfield Park Handicap.

He shaped well enough in two starts for John Dunlop as a juvenile but was not seen again until finishing fourth on his first start for Roger Ingram.

He was travelling as well as any that day until lack of race-fitness told inside the final furlong and that was a fine effort - and one he is confidently expected to improve upon in the coming months.

Ingram does well at Lingfield and although his new recruit has not been underestimated by the handicapper All Good Things is fancied to beat a largely moderate bunch of rivals.

Back from an unsuccessful stint in the States, Baron de Pichon has hinted that he is ready to strike form for Andrew Reid on his last two starts.

The gelding was a multiple winner for Nick Littmoden on the fibresand 18months ago and if back to anything like his former best would have a first-class chance in his division of the Christmas Nights Claiming Stakes.