Thursday's racing bulletin

The Five Live selection is Medici in the 1600 at Taunton (all times GMT).

Martin Pipe narrowly escaped losing his licence at the Jockey Club on Wednesday when he was fined £7,500 for not allowing Tanterari into the dope-testing box at Haydock recently.

Pipe said he was worried about the possibility of infection from other horses.

The fact that Pipe showed remorse and was repentant meant he escaped a ban.

Pipe landed with Jockey Club fine

Thursday's racing comes from Ludlow, Taunton and Lingfield.

Ludlow passed an inspection at 1130 after earlier checks proved inconclusive.

There are no problems at Taunton, where overnight temperatures fell to -1.2C.

The ground temperature is already 3C, so no problems are envisaged and conditions are currently good to soft with good patches.

Medici in the 1600 looks the best bet of the day having run extremely well on both occasions at this track.

On his penultimate start he beat Lirta in convincing fashion and last time out lost nothing in defeat to the improving Sesame Rambler.

The victory would be appropriate for his trainer Bridget Nicholls who celebrates her 35th birthday on Thursday.

There is no snow or ice at Lingfield where the temperature fell to -1.5C but the Polytrack will still ride standard.

Jockey Richard Quinn can seemingly do little wrong at present and the Scotsman has seven rides at the Surrey course.

His best chance of success comes aboard The Violin Player in the 1510.

Easter Ogil in the 1710 did this column a favour when winning last time out at 6/1 and can give supporters another good run for their money.