5 more poor meetings

Another rather dismal Tuesday with nothing much to get excited about. This afternoon we have flat racing at Salisbury and jumping at Fontwell. The fillies handicap at the former track at 16.55 CET looks the best betting race of the day and Stockhill Diva (Brendan Powell/ Liam Keniry) has a chance, after running a good second in a large field at Newbury on her seasonal debut last time, her best form for ages. However the handicapper has put her up 6 lbs which seems a bit unfair, so we prefer the 3 3yo´s in the field. Both Sweet Selection (Hughie Morrison/ Nicky Mackay) and Vanishing (Ed Walker/ Antonio Fresu) have also gone up, for winning this year, so we shall take a Chance with Haalan (Clive Brittain/ Louis Steward), who has actually come down in the weights and could be well handicapped with a decent claimer on board.

At Southwell, Lolli (Nicky Henderson/ Nico de Boinville) should win the mares maiden hurdle at 19.20 but will be at a very short price; she has been placed in both her hurdles races so far and does not appear to have much to beat today.

The Irish track of Roscommon continues today with an all-hurdles card and some very large fields. Howvere there are only 6 runners in the main event, a novice hurdle over 2 miles at 19.10, which has some useful prospects entered. Riviera Sun (Henry de Bromhead/ Mark Walsh) is the likely favourite, but we like Space Ship (Robbie Hennessy/ Andrew Lynch), who has an exellent flat race pedigree and has won his last two races in good style.