Plenty discussed this weekend including, was Bryony given rough justice, what goes on when a trainer is banned....but isn't....farewell to Simon Claisse and races at Sakhir, Chepstow, Ascot and Haydock disected

For those hard of hearing and wishing to know what Sean and Ron selected this is Ron's text, with Sean's selections for each race discussed:

SAKHIR 1-00PM

Only two years old this race and gets Group 3 status for the first time this year.

They have £500k up for grabs and it’s a seriously International affair, with the Brits having six of the 14 runners racing for them and if we can claim Saaed Bin Suroor as one of our own now, it’s half the field.

The Boys in Blue are responsible for four of the first five on the tissue that I’ve seen and Charlie Appleby has two of the first three on that tissue running for him….and it’s his ZAKOUSKI trading the clear favourite @ 9/4 as I speak.

That speaks volumes for his improvement this year as LORD GLITTERS beat him easily in Dubai in January and yet the O’Meara horse is around 25/1 tomorrow.

Are you sensing an impending change of stable jockey at O’Meara’s?

Jason Watson is getting a lot of rides there since leaving Roger Charlton’s place and with Tudhope riding for Clipper Logistics, I just get a feeling we’ll hear some news in the very near future.

What’s going to win it?

Trends tell me nothing but I’ve liked ZAKOUSKI for a while now, he did me a favour in October and I’d think he’ll take a bit of beating. Only one run since February, he’s going there fresh and I think he’ll win.

RON – ZAKOUSKI

SEAN - ZAKOUSKI

CHEPSTOW 1-45

Seven winners have been aged five and we’ve also seen horses of that age grouping winning four of the last five running’s of the race so let’s go with horses of that age, trading front three on the tissue….I say that because eight of the last 10 winners did so and, we’ve seen six winning favourites….although I should point out we’ve has winners at 16/1 and 14/1 in two of the last three renewals.

I’ve narrowed it down pretty quickly To CHANCEUX and WAR CALL. The only two five year olds in the front three on the tissue they’ll trade very short I imagine, and as well as the Skelton horses are going right now, I’m with CHANCEUX, trained by Alistair Ralph.

He was never ridden to win last time as he’d have been given a hard race against a decent winner for no good reason.

WAR CALL’s fourth first time after a wind op was a good run as the winner won at Cheltenham last weekend. I’ll not be betting here myself because these races do not float my boat but for Podcast purposes, I’ll go CHANCEUX

RON – CHANCEUX

SEAN – WHYNOTNOWKEN E.W.

SATURDAY

HAYDOCK 12-10

I’m wondering what was wrong with SONIGINO last weekend as he has been supported the night before the race but was pulled out with a vets certificate?

I was going to start by saying we want a four or five-year-old here but that’d make me look more stupid than smart, as the six currently going to post are aged four, or five!

With no tissue to work with I’m left looking at projected odds and they have MIGHT I trading 6/5 for Harry Fry and the horse he beat very easily on October 21st, THUNDER ROCK, has since bolted up himself at Wetherby last Saturday and the form looks great.

Arriving here for this has not been a negative in the last decade as five winners of those last 10 winners of this have done so but that only rules out KNICKERBOCKERGLORY but with six of those 10 winners going off favourite, right now I’m in the Fry camp and will run with MIGHT I

RON – MIGHT I

SEAN – MIGHT I

HAYDOCK 1-50

Just four going to post and it’s like a plague on NH racing right now. The better the race, the fewer turn out for it.

Only five or six year olds win this so right away we are down to a pair:

BRAVEMANSGAME

PAY THE PIPER

Only one winner of this, in the last 10 years, has gone off bigger than 7/2 and so without much of a fuss it’s BRAV