Evening racing at 3 tracks

There is evening racing today at 3 tracks, with the best race at Leopardstown (Ireland), where the Group Three Ballycorus Stakes over 7 furlongs at 20.30 CET tops the card. This looks wide open, and all 8 runners can be given a chance. BVarry Hills´ Captaon Marvelus, with son Michael in the saddle, is the only fotreign runner, while the best local chances probably lie with Campfire Glow (Dermot Weld/ Pat Smullen), Great War Eagle (David Wachman/ Wayne Lordan) and Summit Surge (Ger Lyons/ Keagan Latham). There are some competitive handicaps on the all-weather track at Kempton, and the class 4 handicap for 3yo´s over 1 1/2 miles at 21.55 looks especially hot, even though there are only 6 runners. The unbeaten Relative Strength (Andrew Balding/ Liam Keniry), who has won boitg his starts here and represemts a stable in top for, has obvous prospects, but faces strong opposition, notably from top-weight German-owned Unleash (Henry Cecil/ Ted Durcan) and Sir Mark Prescott´s General Ting (Daragh O´Donohoe), the dark horse of the race, making his handicap debut over a longer trip after running down the field three times over shorter distances last year- a typical Prescott preparation. Main event at Hamilton in Scotland is the Lanark Silver Bell, a class 2 handicap over 1 1/2 miles at 21.20. This is the oldest race in the British calendar, dating back to the 12th century, and although the racecourse at Lanark closed down in 1977, the race lives on at nearby Hamilton Park. With 13 runners this is very tricky, but La Vecchia Scuola (Jim Goldie/ Daniel Tudhope) came from last place to score very easily here last week and can shrug off a 6lbs penalty.