TONY CALVIN: SATURDAY’s stats and info

STATS/INFO SECTION

1.COURSE DETAILS

NEWMARKET

GOING :  Good, good to firm in places (from good to firm after 10mm of watering on Tuesday)

GOING STICK : 6.8, Wed 8am

Rails: Far Side Course in use.

Stalls: Centre

WEDNESDAY COURSE UPDATE: Threat of showers on Wednesday (2mm). Thurs / Fri and Sat – Dry and cloudy with the odd sunny spell, daytime high of 20c.

Weather (7.46am Wednesday):  2mm Wednesday then dry

Watering: 10mm applied on Tuesday

ASCOT (Friday-Saturday meeting)

GOING :  Good to firm

GOING STICK :  Straight: 7.9. Round: 6.9. Soil Moisture 39% (Wed 7.30am)

Rails: The rail on the round course is positioned between 4 and 8yds out from the 1M 4F start to the Home bend where it increases to 14yds out at the Home straight where the rail finishes in a cutaway. The straight course is divided in two with a rail in the middle of the course from the 1m start to approx 2.5f from the winning line. The stands side will be in use for this meeting.

Stalls: Straight Course: Stands side. Round Course: Inside

WEDNESDAY COURSE UPDATE: 0.4mm rain recorded through the past 24 hours to 8am Wednesday. Occasional showers are possible through to Thursday. Friday and Saturday currently look dry. For access to our live weather station and for the latest Going info please go to www.ascot.com/thegoing

Weather (7.46am Wednesday):   2.7mm then dry

Watering: Watered Straight Course 5mm on Tuesday morning. Watered Straight Course 10mm on Friday. Watered Round Course 5mm overnight to Tuesday and 5mm Thursday to Friday morning.

REDCAR 

GOING :  Good

GOING STICK : 7.3, Wed 2pm

Rails: The inside 8m of the home straight is being verti-drained on Monday ahead of the race meeting.

The inside line of the straight mile chute (a 5m width where the vehicles drive) remains dolled off from the 1m start down to just before the 5f start. Additionally, we have reinstated the rail along the inside line in the home straight, which is dolled out from around the 4f pole down to the just after the 2f pole, after which it cuts away.

WEDNESDAY COURSE UPDATE: Dry & settled on Monday with sunny spells. Dry & overcast on Tuesday. Dry, warm and breezy on Wednesday (22C). The outlook is generally dry, bright & settled through to the weekend, except for a possible, light, passing shower on Friday at the moment.

Weather (7.46am Wednesday):  2.9mm Wednesday; 1.7mm Friday

Watering: 2mm irrigation being applied overnight into Thursday to replace lost moisture.

LONGCHAMP (Saturday-Sunday)

GOING: Good, good to firm in places (their current reading of 3.3 equates to good/good to firm on Turftrax scale)

Turftrax – going stick 8.5; good, good to firm in places

Wednesday update:

Penetrometer reading on Wednesday morning: 3.3 (dry yesterday)

Weather (7.46am Wednesday): Warm and sunny;  20mm Wednesday (starting around 9am; heavier in evening) – MODERATE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ON WEDNESDAY

2.BALLOTED OUT to follow

3.FIRST-TIME HEADGEAR STATS to follow

4.FIVE DAY PACE MAPS (manually assessed; ITV races)

1pm Newmarket (limited evidence): Artemis Star, Zizazig Ah, Pon Pon Dalia

1.15pm Ascot: Breckenbrough, Assaranca, Awaken, Josh’s Joy. Just A Girl, Zen Diva

1.35pm Newmarket: Fallen Angel, Pina Sonata, Evolutionist, Moon Target, Secret Of Life

1.50pm Ascot: Air Force One, Baker Blue, Fandom, Lifeplan, Poatan?, Regional, Lady Youmzain, Luna A Inbhir Nis

2.10pm Newmarket: Fantasy World, Evanesco, Ernst Blofeld, Sportingsilvermine, Topteam, Blue Hercules, Lord d’Or

2.25pm Ascot: Aegean Prince, Al Qareem, Grey Cuban, Royal Playwright

3pm Ascot: Prince Of India, Regional, Into The Sky, Lifeplan, Poatan?, Fitzella

3.20pm Redcar : Satellite Of Love, Stardom Glory, Quillan, Rlasthope, Thomas Waterman, Cheeky Chesca

3.35pm Ascot : Poet Master, Blue Brother, River King, The Fingal Raven, Malachy’s Wish, Humam, Dublin Bay

3.55pm Redcar: Audience, Myal, Volterra, Witness Stand, Awaken, Just A Girl

5.TRAINERFORM (manually assessed; trainers in ITV races; form going into Thursday’s racing)

Good: William Haggas (good/fair), Roger Teal, Paddy Twomey, Jane Chapple-Hyam, James Fanshawe, Sir Mark Prescott, Ralph Beckett, Alan King (small sample), John and Thady Gosden, Tim Easterby (huge sample), Clive Cox, Dr Richard Newland, Charlie Appleby (very good), Ed Walker, Dylan Cunha, Jim Boyle (very small sample), Roger Varian

Fair: Richard Hannon (fair/moderate), Hugo Palmer (fair/moderate), Michael Bell,  Charlie Fellowes, Muir and Grassick (fair/moderate), Richard and Peter Fahey, Iain Jardine, Richard Spencer, Tom Ward, Marco Botti, Andrew Balding, Karl Burke (fair/good), Kevin Ryan, Aidan O’Brien, Charlie Johnston, Hamad Al Jehani, Kevin Philippart De Foy, James Owen, David and Nicola Barron, Ed Bethell, Coyle and Wood, Richard Hughes (fair-good), Stan Moore, David O’Meara (fair-moderate), George Scott, George Boughey, Mario Baratti, Adrian Keatley, Joseph O’Brien, Donnacha O’Brien, Stuart Williams (20-1 winner on Wednesday evening), M C Grassick, Harry Charlton, Ed Dunlop, Jennie Candlish (fair-good), Ed Dunlop, George Margarson

Moderate: Eve Johnson Houghton, William Knight, Craig Lidster, Owen Burrows (moderate/fair – winless), Charlie Hills, Michael and David Easterby (big losing run), Declan Carroll, Ollie Sangster, Katie Scott, Jamie Osborne, Daniel and Claire Kubler (small sample though), Jack Channon

Don’t know: Lucy Wadham, Steph Hollinshead, Geoff Oldroyd, Tracy Waggott, Saeed bin Suroor