Thursday 2nd October

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Timeform Radio Schedule

13:30 Alex Steedman & David Stewart are your hosts for the afternoon racing from Newmarket, Goodwood and Ayr.

18:30 Join Bob Adams & Mark Polglase for the 6 race card at Great Leighs.

Thursday's Action:

Ayr
Type: Flat
First Race Time: 2.20pm
Notable Jockeys: Joe Fanning rides for his employer, Mark Johnston, Micky Fenton, a Classic-winning rider, having won the 1,000 Guineas with Speciosa.
Notable Horses: Hits Only Vic is one to watch in the feature race at 5.15pm as he has been either 1st or 2nd in his last 8 runs and once again he is partnered by his regular rider, David Allan.
Feature Race: Dawn Construction Handicap 5.15pm
Admission prices: Club £20, Grandstand £14. Children go FREE.

Goodwood
Type: Flat
First Race Time: 2.10pm
Notable Jockeys: Hayley Turner - the first female jockey to be crowned champion apprentice & leading female rider this season. Top 10 riders in action include: Neil Callan 3rd and Eddie Ahern 9th. David Probert - joint leading apprentice rider this season. Charles Eddery is a young jockey with a racing pedigree and a bright future. Nephew of multiple champion Pat Eddery.
Notable Horses: History Lesson in the 2.10pm was just beaten at Newbury on its last run and gives the Queen a good chance of a Goodwood winner. The wonderfully-bred Kahara in the feature race at 3.55pm has yet to win this season but one of her wins came at this track last year.
Feature Race: Spinal Research Fillies' Stakes 3.55pm
Admission prices: Richmond Enclosure: £27, Gordon Enclosure £19 Children under 17 go FREE

Newmarket - Rowley Mile Course
Type: Flat
First Race Time: 2.00pm
Notable Jockeys: Ryan Moore - leading rider this season with over 150 winners. Jamie Spencer - joint champion jockey. Top 10 riders Paul Hanagan and Dane O'Neill. Richard Hughes - 2nd in the championship table this season. Racing personality, Frankie Dettori rides at racing's HQ.
Notable Horses: Richard Hannon has won plenty of sales races this season and had a bumper payday on Sunday when winning both Goffs Millions races in Ireland. Appraisal is the choice of Richard Hughes in the 2.35pm to get another sales race winner on the board. The unbeaten Wingwalker represents Henry Cecil in the Somerville Tattersalls Stakes at 3.45pm. He won a maiden at Newmarket that keeps on producing winners, and then a novice stakes at Sandown. Trainer Henry Cecil likes to climb the racing ladder with his horses rather than go simply from a maiden to a Group race, so this horse has earnt a shot at Group race glory and is quoted in lists for next year's 2000 Guineas. The Betchworth Kid chases a hat-trick of wins in the 3.10pm.
Unbeaten Desert Phantom in 3.45pm & Perfect Flight in the 4.55pm have won their last 3 races
Feature Race: £250000 Tattersalls October Auction Stakes (Class 2) 2.35pm
Somerville Tattersalls Stakes (Group 3) 3.45pm
Admission prices: Premier £22, Grandstand & Paddock £16. Children go FREE
Other Information: First day of the three day Cambridgeshire Meeting. The Cambridgeshire meeting marks the return to the Rowley Mile racecourse for the big autumn events and, like Newmarket's other major fixtures, offers compelling racing at one of Britain's best and most historic venues.

Cambridgeshire Meeting Preview:

Quality is the watchword on all three days. Thursday features the Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes over six furlongs, one of the major end-of-season championship races for two-year-old fillies. The card also includes the Group 3 Somerville Tattersall Stakes, another well-established race for the leading juveniles, run over seven furlongs.

Friday features the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes, run over the same distance as the Cheveley Park but this time giving the top two-year-old colts their chance to stake a claim for championship honours. The Group 3 Joel Stakes, over a mile, is also on the programme.

Saturday's card includes the nine-furlong Cambridgeshire, one of the best-known and most competitive handicaps of the year. The race is the first leg of the Autumn Double at Newmarket, which is completed by the marathon Cesarewitch on Champions Day later in the month, and is a highly-prized event.

Great Leighs
Type: All Weather Flat
First Race Time: 6.50pm
Notable Jockeys: Top 10 rider Dane O'Neill. Kirsty Milczarek - 2nd in the All Weather Jockeys Championship 07/08 & she is only 1 of 4 women to ride out her apprenticeship claim and join the professionals. Chris Catlin - champion all weather rider
Notable Horses: Mulberry Lad in the 6.50pm tries to break his duck at the course having won at Britain's other 4 AW tracks.
Feature Race: Jasper Handicap 9.20pm
Admission prices: Admission £15, Children go FREE