Catterick and Yarmouth

Very poor racing at today´s two U.K. flat meetings - 13 of the 16 races run at Catterick and Yarmouth are low-grade handicaps. At the former track the two divisions of the 7 furlongs handicap are the most interesting events. At 15 .20 CET we like Trans Sonic (Dean O´Meara/ John Fahy). he was previously regarded as an all-weather specialist and won 4 races at Southwell earlier in the year, but ran out a good winner over this CD last time out and still seems nicely handicapped. Keys of Cyprus (David and Adrian Nicholls) also has a chance, but this team have better prospects in the second division at 16.50 with Cara´s Request, currently in top form and also a recent CD winner.

If there are any decent horses running today, they can only be found in the 2yo maiden over a mile at 15.30 at Yarmouth. This looks quite a strong race for the track, with Sir Michael Stoute´s Sea Moon (Ryan Moore) the likely hot favourite. He is highly rated in his stable and made an excellent debut recently, but there are several well-bred newcomer in the field- notably Godolphin´s German-bred Raw Spirit (Saeed bin Suroor/ Frankie Dettori) to overcome, as well as Little Rocky (David Slimcock/ William Buick), also a good runner-up on his debut. Frankie stays on to partner James Boyle´s top-weight Roderigo de Freitas in the 3yo handicap over 9 furlongs at 17.30, and this recent Windsor winner can score again under a penalty, as can Franki J (Des Donovan/ Sophie Doyle), who has top weght in the 7 furlongs 3yo handicap at 16.00. The filly has won twice over this CD with this rider aboard and was particularly impressive when making all here last week.