Salisbury and Yarmouth

Flat racing this afternoon at Salisbury and Yarmouth, but mainly of poor quality, although there are some large fiels at Salisbury, where the class 4 handicap over 10 furlongs at 17.05 looks tricky, ass most of the 10 runners find it difficult to win. 9yo Del Mar Sunset (William Haggas/ Liam Jones) is typical - although he has shown consistent form, he has only scored once in the last 3 years, while Higgy´sBoy (Richard Hannon/ Richard Hughes), arguably the form choice here, is still a maiden. Wester Ross (James Eustace/ Hayley Turner) has only one carer win to his credit, but still has a major chance judging on his good effort this CD last time. The 7 furlongs rae for maiden fillies at 17.40 looks easier, although there are 15 runners. Emirates Lady (Saeed bin Suroor/ Ted Durcan), a good runner-up on the all-weather on his only start so far, and Provence (Barry Hills/ Richard Quinn), in the mony on 4 of his 5 starts, have clearly the best public form, while of the 6 debutants Ethaara (William Haggas/ Richard Hills) is much the most interesting. The fields are generally smaller at Yarmouth, and the quality even worse, but one horse stands out: Sir Mark Prescott´s Aleatricis (Seb Sanders) has already won 3 times this month and has found another easy task in the class 6 handicap for 3yo´s over 1 1 /2 miles at 16.15. The mile fillies handicap at 16.50 is more open. Sir Michael Stoute´s Striving (Ryan Moore) has been runner-up, althogh well beaten, the last twice and can possibly get her head in front this time. At 300,000 guineas, she cost exactly 100 times as much as Imperial Lucky (Mark Wallace/ Pat Cosgrave) who has run well all 3 starts this year and looks the main danger.