A decent card at Auteuil today in France.  Nimes 1.05 will try to follow up from a recent win at Compiegne in March.  He is trading around evens with most firms, and should follow up, stable mate Yes Indeed is his likely main threat.  Probably the best race is at 12.05.  Gooaaal carries top weight in this 2m 6f event over fences.  He is around 10/1, and would be my pick each way.  Nanosecond won well recently, but does lack experience over the larger obstacles, she jumped well on her only try over fences when winning. Trading around 2/1 she is the one to beat, despite her inexperience.

It looks very likely that racing in the UK will resume in June. How soon crowd’s may be allowed to watch remains to be seen.  The 6th of June is when the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket is hoped to be ran. It looks likely that the majority of runners will not of had a prep run, which will be unusual for this race.  I mentioned Arizona as my each way bet a while ago, he is still around 10/1, with my other choice for the race, french trained Earthlight, who is not yet a certain runner, as it will very likely depend on if the current short priced favourite – Pinatubo runs, although I believe Andre Fabre, who trains Earthlight, would like to run his horse at Newmarket, rather than go to France for their 2,000 guineas the weekend before.

More later.