4 low-level meetings today

Nothing very special at today´s 4 U.K. meetings, although the novice hurdles at Taunton are of some interest, wth several decent ex-flat horses in action. The best horse running here is Menorah (Philip Hobbs/ Richard Johnson), who faces only 2 opponents in the novice chase at 14.10; it will be a shock if he is beaten, but he will be at an unbackable price. Hobbs and Johnson also have a chance with the decent bumper Talkonthestreet, who makes his hurdling debut at 13.40, but here we prefer Black Thunder (Paul Nicholls/ Daryl Jacob), whose latest form has been well boosted since. Nicholls and Jacob can also score with Ted Spread at 15.20, a listed winner on the flat who made a good hurdling debut. Ex-German Home Run (David Pipe/ Mr.K. Edgar) is probably not good enough - even though he is closely related to Hurricane Run, and stable companion War Singer (Tom Scudamore), a multiple winner in France, looks much more dangerous. Enroller (William Muir/ Noel Fehily) won a group race on the flat in April last year; even though he has been disappointing since, and was well beaten on his debut over sticks, we expect him to run much better at 14.45.