6 meetings today

After the excitements of the weekend, today´s 6 meetings offer only low grade stuff. There is an additional all-weather fixture at Southwell to make up for all the days lost to the weather this month, but the card is pretty dreadful. An interesting runner here is ex-German Allanit (Barney Curley/ Daragh O´Donohoe) in the mile handicap at 17.20 CET, but his U.K. form is awful - however he has now been dropped to a very favourable handicap rating.

The 1 1/2 mile handicap at 15.40 sees Kingaroo (Greg Woodward/ Luke Morris) and Bring Sweets (Brian Ellison/ Dale Swift) in opposition again, Last week they were first and second here with the third horse lengths back. Kingaroo won that by a head, but Bring Sweets is now 9 lbs better off so in theory should turn the tables. However Kingaroo is in such good form and has such an excellent record here that he could easily score again.

Luke Morris moves north to Yorkshire for the evening meeting at Beverley and can take the 2 mile handicap for 3yo maidens at 21.30 with Sir Mark Prescott´s Solar View. He is probably the slowest horse in the yard, but can still beat this lot of no-hopers.

Charlie Hills - son of Barry - has his stable in good form and sends just one horse to Scotland today, One Word More, ridden by William Carson - grandson of Willie- in the 2yo maiden at 15.00. He has twice been runner-up in probably much better company at Newbury and should certainly win this time, but will be at a very short price. More lucrative bets could be Master of Dance (Keith Dalgleish/ Lee McNiff) and Royal Straight (Linda Perrett/ Shane B.Kelly), who have top weight in the handicaps at 16.05 and 17.10 respectively.

At Cartmel over jumps, we prefer to go with the bottom weights - More Equity (Dianne Sayer/ Ryan Mania) over 2 3/4 miles at 17.30 and the much improved Riskier (John Wade/ Brian Hughes) over shorter at 18.05.

At Windsor we like Furbelow (Jeremy Noseda/ Ryan Moore) in the 6 furlongs handicap for 3yo´s at 21.10. This well-bred filly with the strange name looked very decent when winning a Kempton maiden in April and her last race can be ignored as her saddle slipped. She can get back on the winning trail today.

In Ireland there is a mixed meeting at Ballinrobe, with 4 flat races followed by 3 over hurdles. Most of them are for maidens with large fields of little quality. Tepalo (Tony Martin/ Ruby Walsh) has been runner-up on both his hurdles starts and can make it third time lucky at 21.50.