Today´s flat racing

A busy Easter Saturday with 3 flat meetings and 3 over jumps. Kempton´s traditional Easter fixture now has the mile listed event for fillies and mares at 15.40 CET as its main feature. Sooraah (William Haggas/ Ryan Moore) and Law of the Range (Marco Botti/ Adam Kirby) are the two top-rated and could well fight out out the finish, but very lightly-raced Raasekha (Charlie Hills/ Paul Hanagan), not seen out since winning an Ascot maiden in July, looks an interesting alternative. The Queens Prize, a 2 mile handicap at 16.15, is a tricky race and John Gosden makes things trickier by saddling two runners Thimaar (Hanagan) and Rasheed (William Buick), both last-time-out winners and with chances, However we prefer Right Stuff (Gary and Ryan Moore), who has a good record at this track, while we cannot resist a small saver on Enroller (Willie Muir/ Martin Dwyer), who missed all of 2010 and struggled a bit last season but is very well handicapped on his old form. The mile handicap at 15 .05 is another open race; Double Dealer (Mahmood al Zarooni/ Frankie Dettori) was very consistent last year without winning and is the first British Godolphin starter of 2012. We expect him to win and he can point the way for the two Godolphin runners later in the race for 2yo fillies at 16.45.

Musselburgh stage one of their best meetings of the year and the big race here is the valuable mile handicap for 3yo´s at 16.50. Mark Johnston saddles 3 runners, with Joe Fanning on top-weight Switzerland, but he looks held on earlier all-weather form by Shabora (Roger Varian/ Neil Callan). Marcus Tregoning has started the season well and his Bronze Angel (Hayley Turner) must be considered, while Richard Fahey regards Gabrial (Tony Hamilton) as his best chance of the day. As he has plenty of runners today, this opinion should be respected, and the trainer also expects his 2yo debutant Polski Max to run well at 15.10. The 5 furlongs conditions race at 15.45 features two previous winners, Hamish McGonagall (Tim Easterby/ David Allan) and Borderlescott (Robin Bastiman/ Neil Callan). The latter is now 10 and probably not as fast as he used to be, but he can still win in receipt of 8 lbs from his main rival.

In Ireland, the 6 furlongs listed event at 15.50 at Cork is the best race and has 15 runners. Croisultan (Dermot Weld/ Pat Smullen) won a good handicap at the Curragh a fortnight ago, and this form might be good enough, but The Reaper (Ger Lyons/ Johnny Murtagh) looks very dangerous on his form at Meydan in January; he was only 4 lengths behind Krypton Factor in Dubai and obviously has a great chance in this company.