Friday's racing bulletin

The Five Live selection is Ice Planet in the 1430 at Ayr (all times BST).

Its the second day of racing at Ayr where the ground is good with good to soft places on the round course following a dry night.

The feature race of the meeting is the Ayr Silver Cup which although valuable is a consolation race for horses not good enough to run in Saturday's Ayr Gold Cup.

Usually depending on the ground horses either coming from a high numbered or low numbered stall have an advantage but on the evidence of yesterday neither high or low have any edge.

Despite the fact there are 28 runners confidence is high that Ice Planet can win.

The horse, trained by sprint king Dandy Nicholls, was very impressive at Ripon and looks to be improving.

Newbury host the first of two days racing and the ground is still good to firm with only 1.4mm of rain overnight.

The conditions will be music to trainer Clive Cox's ears because his New Seeker in the 1345 loves to hear his feet rattle.

Unfortuately the opposite is the case for Frank Sonata who contests the 1415.

There is no shortage of runners at Nottingham where they had 14mm of rain on Thursday, easing the ground to good.

Leading jockey Jamie Spencer is the man to follow. The Newmarket-based rider should be in the winners enclosure with Queens Best in the 1425 and Fayr Sky in the 1455.