TONY CALVIN: SATURDAY stats and info

STATS/INFO SECTION

1.COURSE DETAILS

ASCOT (two day meeting)

GOING: Good to firm

Going Stick – Straight: 7.8, Round: 6.5 (Monday 8am)

Soil Moisture: 43%.

Rails: For Friday the rail on the Round Course is positioned approx 3yds to 4yds out from its innermost position from the 1M 4F start to the Home bend. This rail will be removed for Saturday providing fresh ground on the Round course for King George Day.

Stalls: Straight Course: Centre. Round Course: Inside

TUESDAY COURSE UPDATE:  No rain recorded in July. A dry warm forecast for the next week. For access to our live weather station and for the latest Going info please go to www.ascot.com/thegoing

WATERING: Watered Straight Course 10mm on Monday and 5mm overnight to Monday morning and also to Sunday morning. Watered Straight Course 12mm on Friday. Watering Round Course 5mm each night.

Weather forecast:  hot dry and sunny all week, 25-26 degrees

YORK (tw0 day meeting)

GOING: Good to Firm (Good in places)

Going Stick 6.0 on Monday 8.25am

Moisture Meter reading – 32%

Rails: Planned rail position; 13m out from innermost from 9f to the entrance to the Home Straight.

TUESDAY COURSE UPDATE: A cool and cloudy Tuesday morning. Dry since the John Smith’s Cup Meeting, 10th & 11th July. Met Office outlook for the week ahead: largely dry, with some cloud and sunny intervals, temperatures 24-25 degrees Tuesday to Friday. Saturday cloudier and cooler at 22 degrees, chance of showers. Live links to our weather station and the Met Office forecast can be found by clicking through on Going details on the Home Page of our website www.yorkracecourse.co.uk

WATERING: Irrigated Monday night with 3mm to replace moisture lost; 22m applied in last 7 days.

Weather forecast: dry, sunny and 22-24 degrees

2.BALLOTED OUT HORSES to follow (if any)

3.FIRST-TIME HEADGEAR STATS to follow

4.FIVE-DAY PACE MAPS

1.30pm York (normal run-styles may change with NH jockeys riding):  Rosenpur , Goyard, Kodiac Thriller (prom), Lethal Nymph, Copper Knight, Almaty Star, Emerald Harmony, Lipsink, Mon Na Slieve, Equity Law, Managing Director, Mark’s Choice, Our Absent Friends, Cameley Days, Bayraat (prom)

1.45pm Ascot: Glorious Game, Magnesium, Moonrise, The Can Can Queen, Wateera

2pm York:  Pocklington, Apollo One, We Never Stop, Eternal Sunshine, Evening Blues

2.20pm Ascot:  Radiant Beauty, Secret Of Life

2.35pm York: Silawi, Tiffany, Item?, Ghostwriter (prom)

2.55pm Ascot ( I can’t see a confirmed front-runner): Stellar Sunrise (prom), Arctic Dawn (prom)

3.35pm Ascot:  Bay City Roller, Lambourn, Action  – none of the trio are confirmed runners

5.TRAINERFORM (manually assessed)

Good: James Fanshawe, George Boughey,  John Butler, Andrew Balding, Karl Burke, Adrian Keatley, James Owen, Roger Varian (fair/good), Ralph Beckett, Owen Burrows (small sample), Jamie Osborne (small sample), Harry Charlton, Eve Johnson Houghton , Daniel and Claire Kubler (very small sample), Ed Walker, George Scott, F-H Graffard, John and Thady Gosden (excellent), Ruth Carr, Tristan Davidson, Mark Walford, John and Sean Quinn (good/fair), Paddy Twomey

Fair: Hamad Al Jehani (small sample, as usual), Richard Hannon, Donnacha O’Brien, Hugo Palmer, Jane Chapple-Hyam, Clive Cox, Kevin Phillipart De Foy, Richard Spencer, Charlie Johnston, Ed Dunlop, Jack Channon, Brian Meehan, Willie McCreery, Richard and Peter Fahey ,  Charlie Fellowes, William Haggas (moderate for him), David O’Meara, Ian Williams, Stuart Williams, Roger Teal (fair/good – no winners), Sir Mark Prescott, Tim Easterby, Paul Midgley, Sam England, Jennie Candlish, Adrian Nicholls, Gemma Tutty,

Moderate: Jim Goldie, Aidan O’Brien (2-1 winner at Naas on Wednesday), Kevin Ryan, Mick Appleby

Don’t know: T Tezuka, H Miyamoto, Geoff Oldroyd, Clutterbuck and Chalarambous, Anthony McCann, Stephen Hanlon, Robert Cowell, Lawrence Mullaney, Fionn McSharry, Tom Tate