TONY CALVIN: SATURDAY’s stats/info section

SATURDAY’s STATS/INFO section

1.COURSE DETAILS

DONCASTER

GOING: Soft, good to soft in places

Rails: Inner most line on round course. +10yds to all races of 1m 2f and further due to rail realignment.

Stalls: Straight – Centre Round – Inner

WEDNESDAY course update: 0.4mm rain Monday 0.2mm rain yesterday. Mainly sunny today with the small chance of a shower this afternoon. Thursday – dry with sunny spells. Friday – dry and overcast. Saturday – overcast with the small chance of showers in the afternoon. Breezy, with stiff gusts at times. 10-12C

Forecast:  Basically dry; odd light showers

AINTREE

GOING: Good to soft, good in places

GOING STICK: 5.6

Rails:  Hurdle 1 is positioned as a cross flight, leaving two hurdles in the home straight. All rail in innermost position; distances as advertised.

Low sun could result in obstacle omission at this fixture

WEDNESDAY course update:  Forecast: A cloudy start on Wed with some drizzle; sunny spells later. Dry with sunny spells on Thurs. Cloudier Fri & Sat with just the chance of a light shower on Saturday morning (0.2-0.5mm). Temperature highs of 12c. For live Going and Weather please visit https://www.thejockeyclub.co.uk/aintree/owners-and-trainers/the-going/

Watering: 10mm irrigation last Fri & again Sat. 5-7mm Sun & Mon, 8-10mm Tues, 7mm Wed.

Weather: Light showers, if anything Wed-Fri

2.BALLOTED OUT

3.FIRST-TIME HEADGEAR STATS to follow

4.PACE MAPS (manually assessed) to follow

1.15pm Aintree: 

1.45pm Aintree: Mange Tout?

2.10pm Doncaster: 

2.20pm Aintree:

2.45pm Doncaster: 

3pm Aintree: 

3.25pm Doncaster: 

3.35pm Aintree: 

5.TRAINERFORM (manually assessed; form going into Thursday)

Good:  Harry Fry, Joe Tizzard, Killahena and McPherson, Sam England, Henry Daly, Neil Mulholland, Dan Skelton (just a numbers and winners’ machine), Olly Murphy, Jamie Snowden, Tristan Davidson, Henrietta Knight, C W J Farrell (1 from 1), James Owen, Andrew Balding, Ed Walker, Mick Appleby, Grant Tuer, Daniel James Murphy, Aidan O’Brien, Charlie Appleby, Owen Burrows, Harry Charlton

Fair: Russell and Scudamore (fair/good),  Anthony Honeyball (fair/good), Warren Greatrex, Donald McCain, Paul Nicholls (fair/good – double at Chepstow on Wednesday, though a 1-2 chance also beaten there), Sandy Thomson (fair/good), Nigel and Willie Twiston-Davies, Tom George (small sample; one winner), Parkinson and Smith, Christian Williams, Hammond and Smith,  Nicky Richards,, Adam Nicol, Dianne Sayer (1 from 6), Harry Derham, Jane Williams, Jonjo and AJ O’Neill, Gary Hanmer, Nicky Henderson, Gordon Elliott, Greenall and Guerriero, Ben Pauling, Stuart Edmunds, Rebecca Menzies, Emma Lavelle, Dylan Cunha, William Haggas, Ralph Beckett (fair/good), Richard Hannon, David O’Meara, Kevin Ryan, Clive Cox, John and Thady Gosden, Charlie Johnston, Richard Hughes, James Tate. Jamie and Josh Moore, Liam Bailey, Ian Williams, Andrew Slattery, Hamad Al Jehani, Roger Varian

Moderate (some small samples): Mickey Bowen, Tom Ellis,  Hobbs and White, David Pipe, George Bewley, L J Morgan, Lizzie Quinlan (two good thirds at 18s and 14s, though), Mark Walford (despite a winner with his last runner, on Tuesday) , Faye Bramley, Nick Scholfield, Alan King, Tom Lacey, Karl Burke, Hugo Palmer, Jack Channon, Michael O’Callaghan, George Scott, Stan Moore, Steph Hollinshead, Sir Mark Prescott, Scott Dixon, Brian Ellison, Jonathan Portman, Jim Goldie, David Menuisier, Jamie Osborne, Tony Martin

Don’t know (small samples): Sarah-Jayne Davies, Samuel Drinkwater, Kerry Lee, J A Stack, Thomas Faulkner, Kevin Coleman, Mark Hoad, Jessica Bedi, Lucy Wadham, Patrick Neville, Charlie Pike