Graded N.H. race in Ireland

Once again the best race of the day comes from the Irish meeting at Galway, but this time over jumps- the graded novice chase at 19.20 CET. There are some big fields at Galway but only 6 line up for this and it looks as the mercy of Aleichi Inois (Willie Mullins/ Paul Townend), who looks another potential star for the Mullins stable. He was quite useful over hurdles but has really come into his own after being sent chasing and is unbeaten in 3 starts over fences, including this CD. He has a lot of weight, but it will be quite a surprise if he is beaten this evening.

There are alaso two jumps Meetings in the U.K., at Perth and Wprcester but wuth small fields and few races of betting interest. At the Scottish track the strong raiding party from Ireland should go home with a few winners, while at Worcester we are interested in Lysino in the novices handicap chase at 16.10; the half-brother to German Derby winner Lucky Speed has won on the flat in both England and Germany, and also over hurdles in the U.K.; he goes chasing for the first time here.

The two flat meetings at Leicester and Redcar are mainly low grade. Best race at the former track is the 7 furlongs handicap at 17.20, which looks wide open; are two against the field are the consistent Outback Traveller (Jeremy Noseda/ William Buick), who has won 4 of his 8 starts and is probably capable of further improvement, and Askaud (Scott Dixon/ Freddie Tylicki), who has ben out of form but is now well handicapped and has a good CD record.Most of the runners in the handicap over the straight mile at 17.00 at Redcar look very exposed; the exception is Almuheet (Brian Ellison/ Dale Swift), one of the two 3yo´s in the field, who has been running in better company; he is drawn out wide, but that should make no difference at this track.