Tuesday evening

The evening cards at Lingfield (all-weather) and Thirsk are not much better, although there are some large and competitive fields at the Yorkshire track. Most interesting runner here could be Pilca (Declan Carroll/ Adrian Nicholls)in the opening 2 mile handicap at 19.20 CET. The gelding has not run on the flat for 3 years, but has shown some good hurdling form, including last time out, and could be thrown in here off an insulting handicap rating. The fieldof 16 for the 5 furlongs handicap at 21.50 includes many of the usual prospects. Derek Barker´s Brut is not the most consistent, but goes well for today´s rider Adele Rothery, while Cape Royal (Miltzon Bradley/ Stephen Donohoe) has been running in better races and has dropped to a favourable mark and Playful (Ralph Beckett/ William Buick), runner-upat Salisbury a fortnight ago, has the best recent form. At Lingfield, Whisky Junction can complete a four-timer for trainer Andrew Balding and jockey Liam Keniry in the 6 furlongs handicap at 21.00; he has a huge weight to carry, but should be up to the task. Only 5 run in the 1 mile 5 furlongs handicap for 3yo´s at 20.30, which could develop into a match between Sir Mark Prescott´s Reclamation (Seb Sanders) and top-weight Inchwood (Michael Jarvis/ Darryll Holland). Ryan Moore is always dangerous when riding for his father Gary and may be able to persuade Rocker to get his head in front after having finished runner-up 4 times in his last 6 starts, in the 5 furlongs handicap at 20.00.

Tuesday afternoon

Tuesday is often the weakest day of the week as far as the quality of racing is concerned, and that is certainly the case today, with none of the races at this afternoon´s meetings at Brighton and Hamilton being better than class 5. However every race is a new betting opportunity and punters could do well to concentrate on the rides of Seb Sanders and Ryan Moore at Brighton, and Paul Hanagan at Hamilton. Sanders can take the take the 3yo handicap over 7 furlongs at 16.00 CET for trainer Ralph Beckett with top-weight Spin Again, who haslooked slightly unlucky te last twice, while he and Moore can fight out the finish of the 1 1/2 miles handicap at 17.30 on Sir Mark Prescott´s casual Garcia and Roger Charlton´s Sea Admiral respectively. The most interesting race here could be the 10 furlongs maiden at 17.00, in which Hendersdyke (Walter winburn/ Adam Kirby), a $ 300,000 yearling, Dark Prospect (Michael Jarvis/ Darryll Holland) and Gingham (Luca Cumani/ Dane O´Neill) all have chances. At Hamilton, Hanagan has several good rides for the Richard Fahey stable, notably top-weight Deep Winter in the 3yo mile handicap at 16.15, Fujin Dancer over 9 furlongs half an hour later and King´s College Boy in the 5 furlongs handicap at 17.45. The latter was beaten in a photo-finish here 5 days ago after winning twice the previous week and must be followed while he is such tremendous form.

France today

The racing in France today is also at a low level, with a mixed meeting at Dieppe (6 flat races, 3 over jumps) and trotting from Vichy. There are no German-trrained runners today, but several runners at Dieppe with German pedigrees or connections, for example Horst Rapp´s German-bred Kentucky Queen (Henri-Alex Pantall/ Johan Victoire), who could well run into the money in the 3yo handicap over 2200 metres at 16.25 CET