Musselburgh, Nottingham and Kempton (evening a.w.)

Easily the most valuable flat race in the UK today is the 2 mile handicap at 16.05 CET at Musselburgh. The 3 highest-weighted runners all ran last time in the Cesarewitch, with Dayia (Jeff Pearce/ Saleem Golam), Som Tala (Mick Channon/ Tony Culhane) and Alanbrooke (Mark Johnston/ Joe Fanning) finishing 4th, 15th and 16th of 32 respectively. Theoretically Dayia should come out on top again, but we would not be surprised to see Som Tala, now sligfhty better off at the weights, reverse the form this time. He won the Northumberland Plate off this mark in June and his trainer is now in great form. Main interest otherwise at the Scottish track will be centred on the 2yo races and once again Godolphin have good prospects with the debutant Infanta in the fillies race at 14.30 (Tatiana Romanova is the one to beat) and Florensky in the mile race at 15.35, both with Ahmed Ajtebi in the saddle.

However the Godolphin team are more likely to be interested in the mile maiden for 2yo´s at 14.10 at Nottingham, where they have 2 runners - Burj Nahar (Frankie Dettori) and Psychic Abllity (Ted Durcan). The former is Dettori´s only ride here and is clearly the stable´s number one. They don´t come much better bred than Burj Nahar, who is by first season sensation Shamardal out of Melikah, who was not only runner-up in the Oaks but is a half-sister by Lammtara to Sea the Stars and Galileo. There is also all-weather flat racing this evening at Kempton, mainly at a very low level. Donna Elvira (Richard Hannon/ Richard Hughes) should win the race for 2yo maiden fillies at 17.20 - no Godolphin entry here - while top-weight Giant Sequoia (Jane Chapple-Hyam/ Eddie Ahern) can complete a hat-trick in the 1 1/2 mile handicap that closes proceedings at 22.20.