3 meetings today

3 very poor meetings today and the cards at Ffos Las, Folkestone and Wolverhampton (all-weather flat racing) are not at all punter-friendly. The "best" race is the 3 miles handicap chase at Ffos Las at 15.20 CET with 9 runners, 3 of whom were pulled up last time, two have not run for ages and two were beaten out of sight on their latest outing That leaves Red Rouble (Nigel and Sam Twiston-Davies), runner-up over this CD last time, the only runner with halfway decent ferm, so he is the logical selection. Two German-breds with chances here are Super Directa (Lucy Wadham/ Dominic Elsworth) in the beginners chase at 14.15 and Indian Tiger (Pat Murphy/ Jason Maguire) in the maiden hurdle half an hour later.

At Folkestone, the card is even weaker. Two likely hot favourites who can score here are Lifestyle (Nicky Henderson/ David Bass), a useful hurdler making his chasing debut at 14.00 and Golden Firebird (Alan King/ Robert Thornton) in the mares bumper at 16.40.

The card is even worse at Wolverhampton, where 7 of the 8 races are class 6. The exception is the class 5 (great!) handicap over 2 miles at 18.20. Top Irish trainer Gordon Elliott runs Priors Gold (Brendan Powell) here; he was an easy winner of a maiden here last Friday and can score gain under a penalty. It seems ages since Lovelace (Richard Fahey/ William Carson) won a Group Two at Baden-Baden and it is depressing to see him run now in the 7 furlongs seller at15.45, but we hope that he can at least run well in this lowly company.