Goodwood May meeting starts today

Goodwood´s May Meeting, their second most important fixture of the year, starts today and the listed race for 3yo fillies over 10 furlongs at 17.25 is the best race of the day in the U.K. From the betting point of view it looks very tricky, as there are arguments both for and against all 8 runners. The two top-rated fillies are Feedyah (Charlie Appleby/ Richard Hughes) and Secret Pursuit (Marcus Tregoning/ Hayley Turner), but that may not mean too much. The former was placed in both UAE fillies classics at Meydan and this is her first race since; the jockey booking seems very surprising, but Hughes is the top jockey here and victory would be no huge surprise. The latter showed much improved form to finish runner-up in tne Cheshire Oaks, with Psychometry (Sir Michael Stoute/ Ryan Moore) well held in fourth, but we one we really like is Jordan Princess (Luca Cumani/ Andrea Atzeni) who was runner-up to Taghrooda at Newmarket. She was beaten a long way, but looks certain to come on for that run, while the winner is now favourite for the Oaks.

The 7 furlongs handicap at 16.50 looks quite a hot race, even with only 8 runners, and So Beloved /Roger Charlton/ James Doyle) is apparently regarded as a posssible Royal Ascot winner. Howeverboth he and the likely favourite Russian Realm (Stoute/ Moore) are by Dansili and may find this trip on the sharp side. Thd 3 CD specialists here are George Guru (Mike Attwater/ Rab Havlin), Magic City (Richard Hannon/ Hughes) and The Confesssor (Henry Candy/ Dame O´Neill). George Guru did best of them last time, while the other two were a close second and third in this race last year. If 8 run, The Confessor, who runs his best aces here, could be an interesting each-way bet.

Most of the jockeys will be at Sandown´s evening meeting, where we are interested in German-bred Norab (Marco Botti/ Atzeni) over 1 3/4 miles at 19.25. This half-brother to Night Magic jhas not shown much so far, but would not need to be anything soecial to score off this rating.

Another German-bred we like today is Mister Bob (James Bethell/ Graham Lee) at Ayr at 17.00 and any further rain would help the prospects of the son of Black Sam Bellamy. Lee is riding in great form and can also take the previous race at the Scottish track on Jim Goldie´s top-weight Titus Bolt.