5 U.K. meetings today

the 5 meetings in the U.K. today nothing to get excited about. The Go Racing in Yorkshire Festival continues with a low grade card at Catterick. The best race here is the 5 furlongs handicap at 16.30 CET, in which Almond Branches (George Moore/ Peter McDonald) attempts to follow up her easy CD win last week under a penalty. Nomoreblondes (Paul Midgley/ Lee McNiff) is another CD specialist, but has not run since winning here twice in May and seems high in the weights now. Our choice is Jamesway, having his first race for Ruth Carr with James Sullivan in the saddle; previously with Richard Fahey, he has some quite decent form in better company to his credit.
Another CD specialist - indeed probably the greatest of them all - is 8yo Chjimes (Conor Dore/ Hayley Turner) at Lingfield. Since winning first time out at Nottingham 6 years ago, all his 13 wins have been at this track, usually over today´s distance of 6 furlongs, Although Ghost Train (Mark Johnston/ Ryan Moore) is the likely favourite today at 18.10 after running a good race here last week, we shall go for Chjimes. Also at Lingfield we hope to see sons of Monsun win both divisions of the 1 1/2 miles maiden, Mashaari (John Gosden/ Paul Hanagan) at 16.10, and City of Canton (Luca Cumani/ Kieren Fallon) half an hour later.
Barney Curley had a winner yesterday, so we should perhaps start paying attention to his runners; he has two German-breds on the track today, Eye of the Tiger (Tom Queally) in a 1 3/4 miles handicap at 21.40 at Sandown, and Steuben (Micky Fenton) 20 minutes earlier at Leicester. Neither has shown any worthwhile form since arriving from the Jens Hirschberger stable, but that does not mean much, and Eye of the Tiger, who - don´t forget- won the Gerling-Preis in 2010!- is now on such a lenient mark that he seems bound to win at some stage.
A German-bred running at Worcester´s N.H.meeting is Goldmädchen (Philip Hobbs/ Mr.T.Cheeseman) in the handicap hurdle at 16.20. Like Barney´s runners, she has been beaten out of sight on all her British starts, but is also on a nice weight and the opposition here looks very weak.

Betting forecast Catterick:
1. Race: Grievous Angel - Panama Cat - Flighty Clarets
2. Race: Tricky Madam - Juana Belen - Bear Totem
3. Race: Relight My Fire - Charlie Em - Sandy`s Row
4. Race: Almond Branches - Nomoreblondes - Jamesway
5. Race: Besty - Sir Windsorlot - Boy The Bell
6. Race: Dunmore Boy - Drumpellier - Dotty Darroch
7. Race: Foxy Music - Partner - Crimea
8. Race: Tinseltown - Operateur - Amir Pasha