Friday, August 08, 2008

Haydock and Newmarket this evening

The most interesting event at a low-key evening meeting at Haydock is the 2yo maiden at 20.05 CET. Servoca (Barry Hills/ Paul Hanagan) already has five decent efforts to his name, some in good company, and seems certain to win before long, but this is a surprisingly strong race, and Nicky Vaughan´s Justonefortheroad (Greg Fairley), who made a very promising debut, muist be feared, along with well-bred newcomer Lyric Art (Bryan Smart/ Tom Eaves). At Newmarket, the 3yo conditions race over 10 furlongs at 20.50 has 6 runners, 3 of them of above average ability. Meydan City (Saeed bin Suroor/ Frankie Dettori) won well over this CD a month ago and can make another small contribution to covering his purchase price of $ 11.7 million. However John Dunlop´s By Command (Seb Sanders), last seen when last of 5 in the Lingfield Derby Trial, and Mick Channon´s Siberian Tiger (Eddie Creighton), who has been running without much success in top handicaps, are both rated almost equal and will be no pushovers.