Brighton, Lingfield and Worcester (N.H.)

Overnight rain in many parts of Britain has changed the going, and it is now soft at Brighton and heavy at Worcester. At the latter track, this will certainly not be in favour of German-bred Donaldson (Jonjo O´Neill/ Tony McCoy), a son of fast-ground specialist Lando, the likely favourite for the novice chase at 16.50 CET. On the other hand this should not worry the same connections´ Two Miles West, who won over CD 10 days ago, in the 3 mile handicap hurdle half an hour later; a son of Sadlers Wells out of classic winner User Friendly, he has one of the best pedigrees in N.H. racing and seems to act on any going. The one to beat is Little Shilling (Tim Vaughan/ Richard Johnson), who won 6 successive races last November/ December but has not been seen out since the Cheltenham festival.

In any case,punters are advised to tread carefully at Worcester and check for non-runners, and the same applies to Brighton, where conditions will be totally different from yesterday. The German-breds Persian Storm (Gary Moore/ George Baker) in the claiming race at 16.00, and Carmenero ((Willie Muir/ Seb Sanders) in the seller an hour later, both appear to have winning chances here. At Lingfield, where the first 3 races are run on turf and the last 4 on the all-weather, we fancy the lightly-raced Adnams (Chris Wall/ Ted Durcan), who also has a part-German pedigree, to beat likely favourite Persian Memories (John Dunlop/ Eddie Ahern) in the 1 1/2 mile handicap at 15.40.