3 poor meetings today

very little to get excited about at today´s 3 meetings in the U.K.- jumping at Lingfield and Sedgefield and flat racing on the all-weather at Lingfield. Not only is the quality of racing very low, there are also generally small fields, so that the whole programme is not at all punter-friendly. The very soft going also adds to the difficulties as we saw from yesterday´s Kempton results.
Southway Star (Neil King/ Trevor Whelan) goes for her fourth win in less than 3 weeks when she contests the 3 mile handicap chase at 15.00 CET at Lingfield. Normally we would not like this, but she seems to be in such good form that she can outclass her 3 opponents today despite having gone up 21 lbs. The handicap hurdle half an hour earller sees Sinndar´s Man (David Pipe/ Tom Scudamore) take on older horses for the first time after twice winnning easily against his own age group. In our view it usually pays to oppose 3y´s running against older horses over jumps, and here we prefer Malanos (Tony Carroll/ Whelan) who has a nice German pedigree and made alll to win easily at Leicester last week. Ex-German Cafe au Lait (Tony Middleton/ Richard Johnson) has run a couple of bad races., but has dropped to his lowest rating since moving to the U.K., and also has a chance.
It generally pays to follow CD specialists at Sedgefield and there are quite a few of them running today. Oldtimer Heez A Steel (Mrs Walton/ Alistair Findlay) loves it here; he was runner up in the 3 miles 3 furlongs handicap chase last year and can perhaps go one better at 14.20. Two CD specialists clash in the 2 miles 1 furlong handicap hurdle an hour later, in which we prefer last year´s winner Amir Pasha (Micky Hammond/ Jason Maguire) to Stanley Bridge (Ferdy Murtagh/ Lucy Alexander).


Betting forecast Lingfield:
1. Race: The Green Ogre - Haatefina - Allthegear No Idea
2. Race: Leith Hill Legasi - Sand Artist - Ball Hopper
3. Race: Sinndar`s Man - Malanos - Dormouse
4. Race: Browns Brook - Arbeo - Gentle George
5. Race: Hel Tara - Millicent Silver - Grace And Fortune
6. Race: Little Jimmy - Sportsreport - Thinger Licht
7. Race: King Louis - Bleu Et Noir - Draco`s Code