Monday, May 07, 2012

4 meetings in the U.K.

Even with Warwick abandoned, there are still 4 flat meetings today in the U.K., but as is usually the case on a bank holiday, they are all very low level and consist mainly of poor handicaps. If there is a single decent performer running today in England, it can only be Terdaad (Saeed bin Suroor/ Frankie Dettori) who goes for the mile handicap at 17.50 at Kempton. The Godolphin 4yo is very lightly raced and only ran once last year, winning at Salisbury. Munsarim (Richard Fahey/ Paul Hanagan) and Forceful Appeal (Simon Dow/ Hayley Turner) both multiple winners this year, but in much weaker company, and we expect the main threat to come from Perfect Cracker (Clive Cox/ Adam Kirby) or Chapter and Verse (Mike Murphy/ Tony Culhane) but Terdaad looks different class and should win.

At Bath Bernard Llewellyn has 3 of the 7 runners in the staying handicap at 16.10. German-bred Salontyre (Chris Catlin), also a useful hurdler, was runner-up in a imilar race over this CD last time and can go on better today.

At Windsor, the 3yo mile handicap at 17.45 is quite a tricky event - 6 runners, and 5 of them last-time-out winners. However we like the one that did not win - Debating Society (Sir Michael Stoute/ Ryan Moore) who meets his conqueror Falcon in Flight (Jermy Noseda/ Jimmy Fortune) on a stone better terms for a 7 lengths beating at Yarmouth.

Our only fancy on a poor card at Beverley is Moheebb (Ruth Carr/ James Sullivan) in the handicap over an extended mile at 17.00, a race won by the same trainer and jockey last year.