Killarney best again

Once again, the Irish meeting at Killarney provides the day´s best sport, as the British meetings are all very poor. Killarney has an all-jumping card today and the best race is a valuable handicap hurdle over 2 3/4 miles at 18.50 CET. With 16 runners, this looks wide open, but our fancy is Sarteano (Dessie Hughes/ Ben Cooper), who won over fences at the Galway festival and seems very well handicapped over sticks.

Blazing Beacon (Frank McGuinness/ Paul Carberry) won well at Naas last time and is one of many dangers. There is also jumping today at Ffos Las and Cartmel, both with very small fields. At Ffos Las the 2 mile handicap chase at 17.50 is the best race. Top weight West with the Wind (Evan Williams/ Paul Moloney), who has a German pedigree, is a smart performer and loves this track, having won 4 of 5 starts here. He has to concede weight to some useful chasers, notably irish challenger Echo Bob (Harry de Bromhead/ Tony McCoy), but we hope that he is up to the task. At Cartmel, Executives Hall (Ben Haslam/Andrew Tinkler) comes with some impressive form figures to the handicap chase at 20.00, but at the weights we just prefer Soul Magic (Heather Graham/ Gary Rutherford), a narrow winner over this CD last time.

There is all-weather flat racing today at Lingfield this afternoon, where the first 3 races are on turf and the rest on polytrack, and Wolverhampton this evening. Michael Bell has his string in great form, and his Correct (Tom Queally), who ran much than the placings suggest whn 7th at Newmarket last time, has a good each-way chance in the 2yo handicap at Lingfield at 16.30. while at Wolverhampton Sir Mark Prescott can land a short-priced double with Keplers Law (Seb Sanders) at 20.45 and Final Liberation (Steve Donohoe) half an hour later.

There are plenty of runners at Carlisle, but no quality at all. German-bred Northern Flyer (John Quinn/ Shane B Kelly) seems to be coming back to form and has a chance in the 7 furlongs handicap at 18.10.