French racing today

Clairefontaine stagesa mixed meeting today with 4 flat races, 4 over hurdles and a steeplechase, the Grand Steeple de la Ville de Deauville at 15.50. This valuable handicap over 4500 metres looks wide open with 18 runners - the same number as in the two races with German-trained runners today. Sandmann (Pavel Vovcenko/ Daniel Nigge) runs in a hurdle race for 3yo´s over 3600 metres at 14.50 and the same trainer saddles Geisha Dream (Xavier Hondier) half an hour later in a selling hurdle race over 3900 metres, in which he is joined by Doris Smith´s Pine Woods (Bertrand Bourez) There is also trotting this afternoon at La Capelle and this evening at Cabourg