Monday, April 21, 2008

Evening racing at Sedgefield and Windsor

Windsor begins its regular Monday evening fixture today, which contnues throughout the late spring and summer with hardly a break until mid-August. There are quite likely some useful 3yo´s in the mile handicap at 19.25 CET. Top-weight Internationaldebut (Steve Parr/ John Egan) ran in some top races last year, and has begun 2008 with two third places over 10 furlongs; this trip is probably better, but he will find it tough to concede the weight to some lightly-raced types from big stables, such as Sir Michael Stoute´s Adversity (Ryan Moore), Jeremy Noseda´s The Which Dactor (Tom Queally) or Gerard Butler´s Sundowner (Jamie Spenser), all of whom look capable of considerable improvement. However Adversity fares, Stoute and Moore can take the 10 furlongs maiden at 20.25 with French Riviera, who is regarded as a smart prospect. At Sedgefield´s evening N.H. card, ex-German Schelm (Ronald O´Leary/ Tom O´Brien) can take the opening novice hurdle at 18.40 after winning in smoorth style on his hurdles debut, while a double penalty should not prevent Howard Johnson´s Wee Forbees (Wilson Renwick) from outclassing his 4 opponents in the novice chase an hour later and remaining unbeaten at this track.