TONY CALVIN: WEEKEND DETAILS, with Double Entries

This is a relatively quiet weekend before Royal Ascot, with a couple of Listed contests the highlight of an eight-race ITV offering.

No early-closers, so everyone is starting from scratch.

WEEKEND DETAILS

YORK (two-day meeting)

Going: Good, good to firm in places

Going stick: 7.0, 3.45pm Saturday

Watering: Irrigating suspended. Will continue to monitor the forecast and conditions.

BHA site history

Monday course update: Currently light rain with 0.4mm to 6.30am Monday. 2.4mm rain Sunday making 4mms in the last 7 days. Met Office forecast: A band of rain first thing Monday will clear during the morning with sunny spells and isolated showers in afternoon. A mixture of sunny spells and blustery showers on Tuesday and Wednesday, with a risk of hail and thunder. Rain arriving later Thursday. Friday, showers and sunny spells,breezy at times. Temperatures increasing to the weekend, 17 to 23 degrees

yr.no weather: 1.6mm already; 0.1mm to come Monday; 3,2mm Tuesday, 4.2mm Wednesday, 1.2mm Thursday, 0.5mm Friday, Dry Saturday

SANDOWN (tw0-day meeting)

Going

Soil moisture 56% Saturday morning

Stalls: Sprint Course – Far Side Remainder – Inside

Watering: None specified

Monday course update: 3mm rain Saturday. Sunday dry. Expecting 2-3mm Monday.Stays unsettled through the early part of next week with rain at times. Improving at the end of the week.

yr.no weather (12.38pm Monday): 8.2mm Monday, 1.3mm Tuesday, 4.5mm Wednesday, 3.3mm Thursday, 0.4mm Friday, Dry Saturday

CHESTER (two-day meeting)

Going: Good

Going stick: 6.2, Monday 7.30am (was 7.1, Friday 8.30am – ground hasn’t changed though strangely)

Rails: Rail will be out approximately 3 yards around the whole circuit. Distance amendments TBC.

Stalls: 1m2f – Outside Remainder – Inside

Watering: If rain does not materialise, will water with the aim to achieve Good ground.

Monday course update: 5mm rain overnight last night. 10.8mm rain over the last 7 days. Light showers forecast for the week ahead with Wednesday potentially bringing thundery showers. Race day currently forecast to be dry with highs of 20’C and a 15mph Westerly breeze.

yr.no weather: 0.5mm Monday, 2.3mm Tuesday, 3.2mm Wednesday, 11mm Thursday, 0.8mm Friday, Dry Saturday

DOUBLE ENTRIES (we don’t have Irish weekend entries until Tuesday afternoon)

1.50pm York: Dunkeld Dreamer, No Knee Never, Parlando, Prince Of The Seas, Say What You See (due to run at Pontefract on Monday), Secret Force (Thu entry), Sixpack (Thu entry)

2.10pm Chester: Postmodern, Abundant, Aqua Bear, Comic Hero, Crown Office, Jeddaal, Jel Pepper, Jungle Ruler. Media Legend , Monarch’s Gold, Proud Nation, Spirit Of Saxony, The Resdev Scholar

2.25pm York: Proud Nation, The Resdev Scholar, Aalto (Thu entry), Bobby Bennu (Thu entry), Brighton Boy, Criminal Shore, Golden Redemption (Thu entry), Invincible Boy, I Still Have Faith (Thu entry), Leadman, Lir Speciale, Nostrum (Thu entry), Oriental Prince, Recency Bias, Son

NB: Akkadian Thunder and Glenfinnan and Mirabeau are in Wokingham

2.42pm Sandown: Hello Spaceboy, Poatan

NB: Sirius A is in the Commonwealth Cup next week

3pm York: NONE

3.17pm Sandown: Antipodes, Circus Of Rome, Clouds Hill, Cogitate (Thu entry) , Hot Cash, Joolianoss, Law Court, Nostrum (Thu), River King, Sticktoyourguns, Swing Vote, Ultrasoul

NB: Beagle Bay, Cogitate, El Matador, High Degree, Stem are in Hunt Cup

3.35pm York: Hello Spaceboy, Poatan, Back To Me, Born Slippy, Chicago Pope, First Time, Jungle Ruler, Postmodern, Ruby’s Angel, Tricky Tel

NB: First Legion is the Wokingham, Super Soldier is the Commonwealth Cup

3.55pm Sandown: Edwin Hubble, Law Court, Ohara, Silver State, Siwa Oasis, Tryst