UK and FRANCE plus SELECTIONS SUNDAY.

Please post your fancies on a great days racing from France.

Zarkava for the ARC and hope National Colour can fly the flag, check home page.

good punting

scotia

SUNDAY

Huntingdon
GOING: GOOD TO FIRM (GoingStick: Hdl: 9.3, Chs: 9.1)
WEATHER: (Cloudy and wet with rain, heavy and persistent for a while; moderate northerly winds)
NON RUNNERS: None reported.

Kelso
GOING: GOOD
WEATHER: (Cold at first with possible ground frost; a dry and fine day with plenty of autumn sunshine; moderate north-westerly winds)
NON RUNNERS: None reported.

Uttoxeter
GOING: GOOD (Good to firm in places)
WEATHER: (Wet with outbreaks of rain, this heavy for a while; drier with some sunshine in the afternoon; moderate northerly winds)
NON RUNNERS: None reported.

Tipperary
GOING: Jumps courses - SOFT; Flat course - SOFT TO HEAVY; INSPECTION 8.30am
WEATHER: (Dry with sunny intervals but there will be some cloud around for a while early on; moderate north-easterly winds)
NON RUNNERS: None reported.

Longchamp
NON RUNNERS: None reported.

Keeneland
NON RUNNERS: None reported.

Dundalk
NON RUNNERS: None reported.

THE going at Longchamp on Saturday had officially dried out to a penetrometer reading of 3.2 – the equivalent of good - but some of the jockeys riding there felt that the ground was softer.

Christophe Soumillon, who rides Arc favourite Zarkava, said: "It's something between 3.4 (good to soft) and 3.6 (soft)."

Olivier Peslier added: "It's good to soft and if there's no rain it will be like a thick carpet."

Clerk of the course Christian Delporte said: "It's a beautiful day today and the track is drying but rain is definitely forecast tonight and tomorrow morning.

“The ground is pretty firm underneath the top layer and it won't take much rain to make it soft. We have kept and 18 metre strip railed off for tomorrow's big meeting and that should be just a little firmer than the rest of the track."

In the big Sprint race at Longchamp I like Borderlescott and Captain Gerrard. In the Arc Youmzain for me.
KELSO; Tranos, Doc Row and Rivington Pike
UTTOXETER; Shore Thing, Able King, Ocean Du Moullin and Prince Vector
HUNTINGDON: Nelsons Spice, Oceania Gold and Mutual Respect.
DUNDALK; Faseela, Funatfuntasia, Wilkandoo

Scotia, there's been a fortune of rain overnight in Paris and the gound will be very soft. Zarkava's participation is in doubt and I assume Duke of Marmalade might also be withdrawn.

If Sun Classique was fit she would have taken her place in today's line up and would have had a great chance.

As fast as she is National Colour would have preferred firmer ground but must still be a good each way bet.

My long time fancy for the Arc is last year's short head runner up Youmzain. The Arc usually springs up an upset so tread cautiously, especially in the wet.

Break a leg.

There's a bit of confusion but the doubt in the ground must be a concern...

ALAIN DE ROYER-DUPRE has moved to allay fears that Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe favourite Zarkava might not line up in this afternoon's world turf championship by insisting that "in principal she runs".

In an interview with BBC Radio Five Live this morning, the trainer reacted to rumours that Longchamp had been attacked with rain by saying that testing conditions would be a "catastrophe" for the unbeaten filly.

Asked if she could miss the race, he said: "You have to take the decision - if it's too much, it's impossible."

However, De Royer-Dupre, reassured by the news that only 1mm of rain fell on Longchamp overnight, has since told racingpost.co.uk that Zarkava - who has this morning drifted to 5-2 having started the day as short as 7-4 - will bid for Arc glory providing nothing unforeseen happens between now and race time.

He said: "It is not true to say that she does not run. In principal, she will run in the Arc. We had a lot of rain at Chantilly last night but apparently not in Paris."

Longchamp officials today report a penetrometer reading of 3.3, just marginally softer than yesterday's 3.2 reading.

Leading French trainer Jean de Roualle this morning walked the track and said: "The ground is good to soft and there is a lot of grass on the course."

on National Colour and ew on WI DUD in the big sprint.

Oh dear what a mess, false start?

What a French Farce!!

I think the race wont be run!

cofirmed race being re-run after last race?

Being run after the last race...

Half the field wont be run..race to be rerun after the last race of the day...1740 uk time