TONY CALVIN: YORK on Thursday

STATS/INFO SECTION

1.COURSE DETAILS

YORK

GOING: Good (fast side)

GOING STICK: 6.3, Monday 8.40am

Moisture Meter reading : 34%

Rails: Planned rail positions from 9f to the entrance to the Home Straight; Wednesday – innermost. Thursday – 3m out. Friday – 6m out. Saturday – 10m out

Stalls: 5f, 5f 89yds, 6f and 1m4f – Centre. Remainder – Inside

MONDAY COURSE UPDATE: 6mms rain overnight to 6.15am Monday, making 9.4mm in August. An overcast damp morning with light drizzle. Met Office outlook for the week ahead: Cloudy with rain forecast Monday afternoon and overnight into Tuesday. Outlook for Wednesday to Saturday racedays – Sunny spells and showers expected throughout this period and feeling fresh, 18 to 20 degrees. For live links to our Weather Station and the Met Office forecast, please visit www.yorkracecourse.co.uk and click through for Going Details on the home page.

WATERING: In light of the forecast and change in temperatures, watering suspended. Will continue to monitor conditions and forecast on a daily basis. Latest irrigation of 2mms applied Friday night making 16mms in the last 7 days

Weather (Yr.no – 2.42pm Monday, the amounts are changing a lot) –Monday: 1.7mm; Tuesday 1.8mm; Wednesday 1.4 mm; Thursday 16mm; Friday 3mm; Saturday dry

2.BALLOTED OUT RUNNERS (get your money back on these)

3.FIRST-TIME HEADGEAR STATS to follow

4.ITV PACE MAPS (manually assessed)

1.50pm York :

2.25pm York:

3pm York:

3.35pm York : Moody, Composing, Johanna Walsh, Legacy Link, Moments Of Joy, Sugar Island

4.10pm York :

5.TRAINERFORM (manually assessed; form going into Monday ; ITV races only)

Good: John and Thady Gosden, Ed Bethell (superb form – 9 from 22 of late), Robert Cowell (fair/good – small sample, and had been on a poor run), Richard and Peter Fahey (fair/good),, F-H Graffard,  Aidan O’Brien, Ralph Beckett, Lemos De Souza (3 from 9), Tom Clover (very good), George Scott, James Owen, Karl Burke, Charles Hills, Simon and Ed Crisford (excellent), Roger Varian

Fair: DJ Murphy, Ian Williams (fair/moderate), Paddy Twomey, Gordon Elliott, Ewan Whillans, Faye Bramley, William Haggas, Jim Goldie, Ed Walker, Andrew Balding, Adrian Keatley (1 from 5), Joseph O’Brien, Dylan Cunha (fair/good), Richard Spencer, David O’Meara, Charlie Johnston

Moderate: Michael Bell, Archie Watson, Michael Keady, Kevin Ryan, John and Sean Quinn

Don’t know: Charalambous/Clutterbuck, Tony Martin, Geoff Oldroyd, Henrietta Knight (one 11-10 winner and one 66-1 ninth)