Lingfield and Wolverhampton today

At least we have two meetings today, even if both are mainly low grade and there are some very small fields. Easily the best race is the 5 furlongs handicap at 14.50 CET at Lingfield, with the two top-weights Swiss Cross (Phil McEntee/ David Probert) and Fratellino (Alan McCabe/ Willie Twiston-Davies) close to listed class. There is very little between them. although Ftaellino could benefit from moving down to the minimum trip again, after being held over 6 furlongs on his recent starts. Woolfall Sovereign (George Margarson/ Ian Mongan) has been in excellent form, winning at Wolverhampton at New Year and before that here, but he is best at 6 furlongs, and is held by Swiss Cross on earlier form here. This is quite a tricky race, but we shall go along with Swiss Cross. Later on CD specialist Chjimes runs over 6 furlongs at 16.35; we were hoping to see Hayley Turner back on board and making her comeback after several months off with a broken ankle, but Conor Dore´s veteran will now be ridden by Willie Twiston-Davies. His recent form is not inspiring, but he is always dangerous at this level and the opposition looks very weak.

The best race at Wolverhampton is tjhe 9 1 /2 furlongs handicap at 17.40. With doubts about some of the runners- two of them were well beaten here yesterday- the safest option should be Presburg (Joseph Tuite/ Liam Keniry); he has running in better races and has top weight here, but his only win so far came over this CD. In our view, Keniry is a much underrated jockey and he can also score here on Peter Grayson´s Vhujon at 16.40.