listed races at Lingfield

the best meeting today is the all-weather fixture at Lingfield, featuring two listed races for fillies. The first, at 15.50 CET, is over a mile and frankly looks a bit substandard. The well-bred Water Hole (John Gosden/ Robert Havlin) won over this CD last December and although she was well beaten on her recent starts, she is still the highest-rated here. The dangers could be Fruit Pastille (Hughie Morrison/ Jimmy Fortune), who has won her last 3 races, and the two Godolphin runners Tearless (Charlie Appleby/ Adam Kirby) and Wahgah (Saeed bin Suroor/ Paul Hanagan). There are also two Godolphin fillies in the 1 mile 5 furlongs race half an hour later; Speckled (Appleby/ Kirby) won this last year (with Ed Walker´s Livia´s Dream runner-up ), but has only run once since. so Saeed´s runner Hidden Gold (Freddie Tylicki) can be preferred. She is up in grade here but has a fantastic pedigree (Urban Sea is the second dam!) and looks an improver. The 7 furlongs handicap which follows is also a tough race, but if Intransigent (Andrew Balding/ Thomas Brown) can reproduce his winning form at Ascot on this different surface, he must have a solid chance under top-weight for a stable that is still banging in the winners.
The most interesting race at the 3 jumps meetings today is the Durham National over 3 miles 6 furlongs at 16.00. This comes very early in the season, having previously been run in the spring. Our fancy here is Royale Knight (Dr. Newland/ Daryl Jacob), one of the few who can be guaranteed to stay the trip. He had a recent warm-up over hiurdles and looks ripe for this. Our other fancy here is CD specialist Sendiym at 15.00; 4 of his 5 career victories have been at this track, including two recently and although he is now meeting better opposition, we think that he can score again.

Betting forecast:
1. Race: Fine View - Regal Ways - Colorada
2. Race: Alfajer - Krafty One - Faery Song
3. Race: Hills And Dales - Swot - Horseshoe Bay
4. Race: Rome - Silver Dixie - Starfield
5. Race: Water Hole - Wahgah - Tearless
6. Race: Tamasha - Speckled - Cascading
7. Race: Prince`s Trust - Athletic - Ifwecan
8. Race: Chevise - Bookmaker - Bertie Blu Boy