4 low-level meetings today

Racing continues at an extremely low level in the U.K. today, with four very modest meetings. German-bred Northern Flyer (John Quinn/ Brian Toomey) runs in the 9 furlongs handicap at 16.30 CET at Wolverhampton. He is very inconsistent, and not much good at the best of times, but he often runs well here and has a definite each-way chance at a decent price. The same goes for Garstang (Bruce Hellier/ Saleem Golam) over 6 furlongs half an hour later. Our old friend Bruce has just about the worst strike rate in Britain, but this horse should be thereabouts today. With Saeed bin Suroor now finally hitting top form, we would not be surprised to see him saddle the winners of both divisions of the 2yo maiden Warwick -Asifa (Jimmy Fortune) at 16.10 and Famous Poet (Richard Hills) an hour later. A German-bred we like here is Double Handful (Venetia Williams/ Adam Kirby) in the 1 mile 7 furlongs handicap at 18.10; Final Liberation (Sir Mark Prescott/ Seb Sanders), going for a four-timer , is the obvious danger.

Local trainer Donald McCain is often the man to follow at Bangor, and he can wln the first two races this afternoon with hurdling debutant Hollow Tree (Timmy Murphy) at 15.20 and novice chaser Dunowen Point (Tony McCoy) half an hour later. Waldsee (Jo Davies/ Tom Cannon), who runs in the novice hurdle at 16.20 has a superb German pedigree - he is a half-brother to Derby winner Waldpark and to the dam of Arc fancy Masked Marvel, but has very little of their ability. However he could go well in this weak company, although Nicky Henderson´s hurdling newcomer Mush Mir (McCoy) is obviously going to be hard to beat.

Richard Hughes won 3 races at Kempton´s evening meeting yesterday and can follow up with Mishrif (John Jenkins) in the last race at 22.10; he was an easy CD winner a fortnight ago and today´s opposition looks no better.