Beverley, Sandown and Salisbury

Three flat meetings this afternoon, but easily the best racing is at Salisbury, where the Group Three mile race for colts and geldings at 17.15 CET is the main feature. With 10 likely runners, this looks very open, and mucvh will depend on how they handle the likely testing ground. Godolphin have a double entry, with Frankie Dettori riding Third Set, who had good form at the Dubai Winter Carnival, but has not run since. Richard hannon also ha two entries, Ordnance Row (Ryan Moore), runner-up in this last year, and front-runner Redolent (Richard Hughes), runner-up to Wiesenpfad at Dortmnund last time. Laa Rayb (Mark Johnston/ Royston Ffrench) won a valuabkew handicap over 7 furlongs at Ascot last time, where heavily-backed Redford (Michael Bell/ Jamie Spencer) was 6th of 29. Although Redford is worse off at the weights now, he is expected to be better suited by the soft going and could reverse the form. The fillies handicap here over 1 /2 miles at 16.40 has 8 runners, 6 of them last-time-out winners. Sir Michael Stoute´s Miss Rochester (Ryan Moore) won in the stylew of a rapidly improving poerformer 11 days ago at Newbury and can go in again. At Sandown, the best race is the class 3 handicap over 7 furlongs at 16.25 with 9 runners (the biggest field on the card). Dingaan (Andrew Balding / Liam Keniry) and Mumbleswerve are consistent performers who do not win very often, so preference could be for Keep Discovering (Mark Johnson/ Darryll Holland), who has been running in better grade events. At Beverley, Mark Johnston, who has runners all over today, can take the 10 furlongs handicap at 16.15 with front-runner William Blake (Joe Fanning); bottom-weight Motafarred (Micky Hammond/ Paul Mulrennan) looks the main danger, but Kingsdale Orion (Brian Ellison/ Lance Betts) is a soft-ground specialist and also has an obvious chance.