TONY CALVIN: SATURDAY’s ITV DETAILS

STATS/INFO SECTION

1.SATURDAY’s COURSE DETAILS

ASCOT

GOING – Chase:  Good, good to firm in places; Hurdle: Good to firm, good in places

Going Stick: Chase: 6.7, Hurdle: 7.1 (Monday 6.30am)

WEDNESDAY COURSE UPDATE: Dry for the past 24 hours to 8.00am Wednesday. 42mm rain recorded through the past 7 days to Wednesday morning. It is now forecast to be generally dry through to racing with some misty/foggy conditions expected at times. For access to our live weather station and for the latest Going info please go to www.ascot.com/thegoing

Weather (8.24am Wednesday):  Dry

Watering: Watering 10mm on whole track today, Wednesday. Watered 10mm on Home straight on Monday.

WETHERBY (Friday-Saturday) – watering heavily (see below)

GOING :  Good, good to firm in places

Going Stick: 5.8, Tuesday 2.30pm

Chase: 6.0; Hurdle 5.7

Good cover of grass. Because of the drying winds we’ve had for the last couple of days there are a couple of sections in the home straight that have just quickened beyond Good ground, but we will continue to water through to close of play on Thursday afternoon so, hopefully, these areas should ease.

Rails: The shared ‘A1’ bend has been moved out by 2yds from its innermost line and the ‘away’ hurdle bend has been moved out 2yds, race distances alterations as per the race summaries.

WEDNESDAY COURSE UPDATE:  Rainfall: August: 40mm September: 30mm October: 75.5mm (of which 47mm has fallen since Fri 16th Oct) 14mm rain and strong winds on Saturday. Very strong drying winds on Sunday. 3mm rain on Monday. Dry and strong winds again on Tuesday through until about 3pm. Dry overnight into Wednesday, but less windy at the moment! The latest forecast suggests that we might get 1mm rain and a calmer day on Wednesday, then dry, calm and overcast for the rest of the week.

Weather (8.24am Wednesday): o.5mm Wednesday: then dry

Watering: We have been watering extensively since July, with a further 50mm applied after the race meeting on 14th October (as at Fri 23rd Oct).

We then commenced a further 20mm irrigation cycle on Monday afternoon and we will continue to water right through to Thursday afternoon.

NEWMARKET (Friday-Saturday; no ITV races)

GOING :  Good to soft

Going Stick: 6.0, Wed 7am

WEDNESDAY COURSE UPDATE: 2mm of rain over the past 24 Forecast: Wed/ Thu/ Fri and Sat – Dry with daytime temps of 15c.

Weather (8.24am Wednesday):  Dry

DOWN ROYAL

28 October 8.02am – Following 19mm of rain since entries, Down Royal is yielding, yielding to soft in places (Hurdle) & yielding, good to yielding in places (Chase).

Mainly dry tomorrow, possibility of 2-3mm (approx) of rain Friday

2.FIRST-TIME HEADGEAR STATS to follow

3.FIVE DAY PACE MAPS of the UK ITV races (manually assessed)

1.10pm Wetherby: Lord Of Cheshire, Ventura Highway?, Chuggy, Toothless, Throatlash, Some Scope, Geryville, Tanking Along, Spadestep, Halftheworldaway, Start Again

1.25pm Ascot: Glynn Brae,  Fiercely Proud (prominent) , Jet To Vegas, Un Sens A La Vie, We’re Red And Blue, Bond Broker, Handmedownastar

1.45pm Wetherby: Ooh Betty, White Noise, St Irene, Watamu?

2pm Ascot: Vanderpoel , Jour d’Evasion, Glengouly, Sir Tivo , Aeros Luck

2.18pm Wetherby: Lud’or, Miami Magic, Paggane?, World Of Fortunes?

2.33pm Ascot: Viroflay, Henry’s Friend, Leave Of Absence (prominent), Rock My Way, Tapley, Time To Bite

2.55pm Wetherby: Doyen Quest, Handstands, Konfusion, Master Chewy, Pic d’Orhy, The Real Whacker, Twinjets

3.15pm Down Royal: Affordale Fury, Croke Park, Haiti Couleurs, Heart Wood, Romeo Coolio (prom)

3.30pm Wetherby: Manuelito, Fasol, Gower Prince

3.43pm Ascot: Indemnity, Loriko, Trustintimes (prominent), Kocktail Bleu, Rightsotom, Macktoad (prominent), Moveit Like Minnie, Fasol, Brendas Asking, Marian Avenue (prominent) , Gower Prince

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

Good: Gordon Elliott, Andrew Slattery, Rebecca Curtis, Dan Skelton, Russell and Scudamore, Nigel and Willy Twiston-Davies, Anthony Honeyball (very small sample), Tom Ellis (very small sample), Gary Hanmer (very small sample), Chester Williams (very small sample), Harry Fry (1 from 2), Joe Tizzard, Tom Symonds (very small sample), Olly Murphy, Donald McCain, Martin Keighley, Chris Gordon, Nick Gifford, Christian Williams, Charles Byrnes, Adrian Keatley (small sample), Jamie Snowden, Stuart Edmunds, Parkinson and Smith

Fair: Henry De Bromhead, Jonjo and AJ O’Neill (fair/good), Neil Mulholland (fair/good), Greenall and Guerriero (had a very rough Tuesday with two fatalities), Faye Bramley, James Owen (fair/good), Emma Lavelle, Fergal O’Brien, Patrick Neville, Hobbs and White, Beckett and Smith, Tim Easterby, John and Sean Quinn

Moderate: Noel Meade, Joseph O’Brien, Ben Pauling, Nick Scholfield, Paul Nicholls, Harry Derham, Mickey Bowen

Don’t know: Robbie Llewellyn, Syd Hosie, Toby Bulgin, Jamie and Josh Moore (new combo – Gary and Josh were fair/good), Sandy Thomson (0 from 6), Henry Daly, Venetia Williams, David Pipe, Tom Lacey, Chris Honour, Henry Oliver, Warren Greatrex, Lawney Hill, Bailey and Nicholls, Ryan Hatch, Hammond and Smith, Richard Hobson, Sam Attwood, Pam Sly, Ben Clarke, James William Kenny, Ruth Jefferson. Lucinda Hughes, Lucy Wadham