6 meetings today

Plenty of racing today, but all of it very moderate. Indeed the two flat meetings afternoon at Bath and Wolverhampton consist entirely of class 5 and 6 events. For us, the most interesting race is the 5 furlongs handicap on the all-weather at 17.10 CET at Wolverhampton, in which that admirable old-timer The Tatling (Milton Bradley/ Liam Keniry) attempts to improve his record of 16 wins and 46 places from 156 starts.

He is no longer as good as he used to be, but always gives his best, and he is still capable at the age of 14 of winning a race like this this if everything falls into place. At Bath, the mile handicap at 17.00 could go to top-weight Jewelled(Lady Herries/ Seb Sanders), who likes this track and has Angelena Ballerina (Karen George and Kirsty Milczarek) and Goose Green (Ron Hodges/ Harry Bentley) to beat.

Most interesting event at Windsor´s traditional Monday evening fixture is the conditions race for 2yo´s at 19.30, where all 7 runners are previous winners. Richard Hannon has won the last 2 runnings and supplies the hot favourite Magic City /Richard Hughes), who after an inpressive debut victory at Newbury was beaten at odds-on by Miss Work of Art at Ascot, That form is probably good enough for him to score here.

At Leicester this evening, Lightning Cloud (Kevin Ryan/ Phillip Makin), who showed nothing in 2 outings last year, but started 2011 with an easy win on the all-weather, can continue on his winning way in the 3yo handicap at19.10.

There is N.H. racing this afternoon at Newton Abbot and this evening at Killarney in Ireland. The best race at the former fixture is the handicap hurdle at 16.20. Ghimaar (Nicky Henderson/ David Bass) is very lightly raced over sticks, but has won 2 of his 3 starts, while on the flat he is a top staying handicapper. He has not run since taking the Goodwood Stakes last July, but if fully wound up, can take this.

In Ireland, there are some decent performers in the 2 1/2 mile hurdle at 19.50, but we hope that German-bred Catch Me (Edward O´Grady/ Andrew McNamara), who has not won for ages, can come back to form here.