TONY CALVIN: SATURDAY stats and info

SATURDAY’S COURSE DETAILS

NEWMARKET

GOING: Good 

GOING STICK: 6.9 , Thursday 8am

Rails: Stands Side Course in Use

Stalls: Centre 

Thursday course update: 1mm of rain since 16th March. Forecast: Thu – Sunny and dry with daytime highs of 16c and a strong eastly breeze. Fri – Bright and sunny, with a daytime high of 21c.

Watering: 15mm applied on Thursday / Friday and Monday / Tuesday. Further 5mm applied on Wednesday.

Yr.no latest (7.16am Thursday): Largely dry, occasional showers, until 13mm Sunday

GOODWOOD

GOING: Good

GOING STICK: 7.3, Thursday 9.20am

Soil Moisture 43%

Rails: All races to be run on inner lines

Stalls: 5f & 6f Centre 1m4f Outside Rest Inside

Thursday course update: 1.3mm rain Monday night Today looks dry sunny and windy. Friday dry and sunny. Sunny spells for Saturday with showers rain arriving mid/late afternoon

Watering: Applied 8mm irrigation last week. Saturday 5mm to the Straight & Field Side. Monday 8mm to Straight Tuesday 8mm to Field Side & Mile Wednesday 8mm Field Side Thursday watering the Straight

Yr.no latest (7.16am Thursday): Dry and warm,, 11mm Saturday (due to start at 4pm)

THIRSK (“watering to hold” – no amounts given)

GOING: Good to firm, good in places

Rails: Home bend dolled out by approximately 3 metres to provide fresh ground.

Stalls: Straight Course: Centre Round Course: Inside 1M6F Start: Centre

Thursday course update: Sunny.Forecast is for a fair outlook until Saturday, when light showers may develop later in the day

Watering: Watering to hold, with 3-5 mm irrigation applied selectively on Monday night. “Watering to hold.”

Yr.no latest (7.16am Thursday): Dry and sunny Thursday; 4.1mm Friday; 1.6mm Saturday

FIRST-TIME HEADGEAR STATS to follow

Charlie Johnston cheekpieces; Marhaba Ghaiyyath, 2.20pm Newmarket;

Andrew Balding cheekpieces; Venetian Prince, 3.35pm Newmarket;

PACE MAPS (manually assessed)

1.30pm Goodwood: Argentine Tango (drawn 5), Fitzella (3)

1.45pm Newmarket: Jakajaro (8), El Bodon (prom – 6), Apollo One (prom – 9), Double Rush (prom/lead – 2)

2.05pm Goodwood: Blue Bolt (2), Never Let Go (prom – 6), She’s Perfect (4)

2.20pm Newmarket: Bullet Point (6), Botanical (5), Mister Winston (2), Alcarath (10), Thunder Wonder (4)

2.40pm Thirsk: Flight Plan (2), Mirsky (8), City Of Poets (9), Esherann (1), Accentuate (14), Bellarchi (prom – 10), A War Eagle (12), Redarna (prom – 6)

2.55pm Newmarket: Jm Jungle (prom – 9), Night Raider (4), Quinault (3), Washington Heights (10), Shagraan (prom – 2), Frost At Dawn (12), Five Ways (7)

3.35pm Newmarket: Alparslan (4), Billecart (prom – 6), Into The Sky (3), Oxagon (10), Power Blue (9), Venetian Prince (11)

TRAINERFORM (manually assessed; form going into Thursday’s racing)

Good:  John and Thady Gosden, Alan King, Karl Burke, Ed Walker, Aidan O’Brien (fairish for him), Roger Varian, Grant Tuer, Charlie Fellowes, Jonathan Portman, William Knight, Jack Channon

Fair: Charlie Appleby, William Haggas (fair/good), Stuart Williams, Richard Hannon, Hugo Palmer (fair/moderate), Andrew Balding,  David O’Meara (double on Wednesday), , Tom Clover (fair/moderate – no winners), Clive Cox (no winners),  Mick Appleby, Charles Hills (fair/moderate), Jim Boyle, Robson De Aguiar, James Tate, Kevin Ryan (fair/good), Declan Carroll (fair/good), Tim Easterby, Michael and David Easterby (fair/good), Harry Eustace (no winners), Kevin Philippart De Foy, Eve Johnson Houghton, Jane Chapple-Hyam, Robert Cowell (fair/moderate), Stan Moore, Julie Camacho (fair/good), Daniel and Claire Kubler, John  and Sean Quinn, Henry De Bromhead

Moderate: George Boughey (fair/moderate), Charlie Johnston (winner on Wednesday), J A Stack (couple of seconds), Charlie Pike (small sample; last runner beaten a neck), Dianne Sayer (small sample)

Don’t know (very small samples): Ismail Mohammed (one winner; three runners), Geoffrey Harker (one winner; two runners), Charlie Clover (fair at best), Stephen Thorne, Charambalous/Clutterbuck (one winner and a 11-1 short-head second from very few runners), T J Kent, Lemos De Souza (one winner; five runners)