TONY CALVIN: SATURDAY’s stats and info

STATS/INFO SECTION

1.COURSE DETAILS

CHELTENHAM 

GOING: Good, good to soft in places

Going Stick  6.1, Thu 10.30am

(6.3 & 6.5 at the Showcase Meeting)

Rails: Chase and Hurdle rails +3y

THURSDAY course update: 16mm of rainfall since the last meeting. Dry yesterday and overnight. Temperatures dipped to -2 briefly overnight. Dry forecast for Thursday with maximum daytime temperatures of +7 degrees. Temperatures forecast to drop below zero tonight but rise above at 08:00 on Friday morning reaching +7 degrees during the afternoon. Another cold night on Friday with temperatures dropping below zero, rising above by 09:00. Dry afternoon forecast with temperatures reaching 8 degrees.

Watering:  Watering continuing in 10-15mm cycles; watering to continue Thursday.

Forecast : Dry

Low sun could result in obstacle omission at this fixture (looks a big runner, unfortunately)

WINDSOR

GOING:  Good (Hurdle course is now good, good to soft in places)

Going Stick – Chase: 6.5 ; Hurdle: 6.3 (Thu 8am)

Soil Moisture– 47.6%

Rails: 9 yards off the inside line from the 1F pole and around the winning post bend. All other rail is positioned on the inner most line.

THURSDAY course update: 7mm of rain throughout Tuesday night. A grass frost this morning, clear skies 6c thus afternoon and tomorrow. 0c with light cloud Saturday morning increasing to 8c for racing.

Watering:  “Watered”

A decision on watering the back straight of the chase course will be made today, to try to avoid “dead ground”.

Forecast: Dry

2.FIRST-TIME HEADGEAR STATS to follow

Olly Murphy blinkers

Olly Murphy cheekpieces

Martin Keighley visor

Harry Derham hood

Bailey and Nicholls cheekpieces

Sam Thomas cheekpieces

Chris Honour blinkers

Chris Honour cheekpieces

Dylan Cunha cheekpieces

3.PACE MAPS (manually assessed) 

1.10pm Cheltenham: Atomic City made it on Flat, Confused, Electrical?, Magnetude?, Mix Match (prom), Tiny Riot

1.25pm Windsor: Thank You Ma’am, Kildinan Prince, Mount Anglesby, Doctor On Call (prominent), Tzarmix?, Lucky Bere (prom)

1.45pm Cheltenham:  Kabral Du Mathan?, Newtown Rambler, Old Park Star, Passing Diamond, Workahead, Folie Golith

2.20pm Cheltenham: Meetmebythesea, Blueking d’Oroux, Quebecois, Guard Your Dreams

2.55pm Cheltenham: Margaret’s Legacy, Hartur d’Arc?, William Yeats

3.10pm Windsor: Watamu, Misterdoc, Fasol (prom), Anniversary, Demoiselle Kap?

3.30pm Cheltenham: Moneygarrow?, Seamoon Story, Grand Conqueror?, Luck Between Us, Hillberry Hill, Sunny South West, Guchen (prominent)

4.TRAINERFORM (manually assessed; form going into Friday)

Good: Dan Skelton, Russell and Scudamore, Henry De Bromhead, Joe Tizzard, Nicky Henderson, Jamie Snowden (very good), Paul Nicholls, Olly Murphy, Emmet Mullins (very small sample), James Owen, Jennie Candlish (small sample), Brian Toomey (small sample), Jamie and Josh Moore, Nicky Henderson, Harry Derham, Sam England, Bailey and Nicholls, John McConnell, Charlie Longsdon (very good), Tristan Davidson, Neil Mulholland, Seamus Mullins, Max Comley

Fair, Nigel and Willy Twiston-Davies, Harry Fry (fair/good), Warren Greatrex (fair-good) , Jane Williams,  Dylan Cunha, Jonjo and AJ O’Neill (fair/good), Stuart Edmunds (fair/moderate), Gordon Elliott, Ben Haslam, Adrian Keatley, Ben Pauling, Paul Nolan, Martin Keighley, Fergal O’Brien, Harry Fry, Syd Hosie, Edward Power, Greenall and Guerriero, Sam Thomas, Alastair Ralph, Rebecca Menzies, Mrs C Williams, Hughie Morrison

Moderate: Faye Bramley, Chris Honour (small sample), P J Rothwell, Tom Symonds, Joseph O’Brien (winner on Thursday), Tony Martin, Alan King, Hobbs and White, Donald McCain, Emma Lavelle (winner on Thursday), Kevin and Lauren Frost, Alex Hales

Don’t know: Patrick Neville, Thomas Cooper, , Kayley Woollacott, Anthony Mullins, Patrick Magee (1 from 6), Clive Boultbee Brooks, Max Young, John Joseph Murphy, Ryan Hatch, Toby Lawes, Robert Walford, Georgina Nicholls, Tom Britten, Mitchell and Vaughan, Sophie Leech