Catterick, Chepstow and Newton Abbot (N.H.) this afternoon

Very low-level racing at today´s 3 British meetings, and the most interesting event is possibly the 1 3/4 miles handicap at 17.20 CET at Catterick with 9 runners. Alan Swinbank´s Saga de Tercey(Neil Callan) won his first 2 races but was a slightly disappointing favourite last time; he can get back on the winning trail here, although top-weight Phoenix Flight (Sir Mark Prescott/ Seb Sanders) and Bergonzi (Howard Johnson/ Freddie Tylicki) both look dangerous. Also at Catterick, the claiming race over 1 1/2 miles half an hour later looks a match betwen Nawamees (David and Richard Evans) and German-bred Terminate (Ian Williams/ Shane Kelly). The former, a very consistent 11yo, runs just about every week and holds Terminate on their CD running in May, but we would not be suprised to see the latter turn around the form this time.

At Chepstow, Newmarket trainer William Haggas and jockey Liam Jones have chances a landing a double for owner-breeders Cheveley Park Stud with Respite, top-weight in the fillies mile handicap at 17.10 and the lightly-raced Penitent in the 7 furlongs handicap half an hour later. A couple of German-bred runners with chances at Newton Abbot are Sonnengold (Bernard Llewellyn/ Isabel Tompsett) in the selling hurdle at 16.00 and Sushitan (Gary and Jamie Moore) in the novice hurdle at 17.00. The former has not run for 15 months, but faces very feeble opposition here, while the latter, who is very lightly raced, has the penalised Zafar (Tim Vaughan/ Richard Johnson), an easy winner at Bangor last week, to beat.