Four evening meetings

We shall shortly have the doubtful pleasure of having evening racing every weekday, and today is a foretaste of this with N.H. racing at Cheltenham and Uttoxeter, and flat racing on the all-weather at Kempton and Dundalk in Ireland. The Cheltenham card is the best, although there are some small fields. Paul Nicholls is no doubt more interesting in today´s events at Ayr, but he can also pick up two races here with Pendower (Paddy Brennan) in the novice hurdle at 18.35 CET and Woolcombe Folly in the novice chase at 19.10. Pendower won his only start over hurdles in good style, although Restless Harry (Robin Dickin/ Henry Oliver) ran well at the big meeting here before falling at the last and is an obvious danger. Woolcombe Folly, who missed all of 2009, was a flop at the Festival, but won his previous 5 races and meets much lesser opposition now.

The best race at Uttoxeter is the 2 3/4 mile handicap hurdle at 19.25. Award Winner (Brendan Powell/ Richard McLernon) may be able to complete a hat-trick here, at the main expense of Al Co (Jonjo O´Neill/ Dougie Costello) and Elusive Muse (Alison Thorpe/ Oliver Dayman).

The interesting feature at Kempton is that Frankie Dettori is here to take 3 mounts for John Jenkins, who has started the season in good style. It would be no surprise to see Papageno in the 5 furlongs maiden at 19.25, Caramelita over 6 furlongs at 20.30 and Trachonitis over 1 1/2 miles at 21,00 all come home as winners.
At Dundalk, we expect to see the Aga Khan´s colours carried twice to victory, by top-weight Daliyra in the 3yo handicap at 20.25 and by Behtarini in the 3yo maiden at 22.25. They are rrained by Mike Halford and John Oxx respctively, but both will be ridden by Fran Berry.