Horse racing: Chester’s May meeting day two, latest news and more – live

CHESTER 1.30, HANDICAP, 5F

A quick dash around the five-furlong course to open Thursday’s proceedings, and it may not be necessary to look much further than stall one for the likeliest winner. Fair Taxes, a four-year-old trained in Ireland by Ross O’Sullivan, likes to make the running, has the perfect pitch by the rail and showed that he acts around here when finishing third, off a 1lb lower mark, on similar ground here last August. He was beaten less than two lengths that day having had the worst of the draw in 12. Jer Batt has returned in fine fettle and posted a fine effort on the clock at Musselburgh last time, when running for the first time in 175 days, but he is out in stall nine, which is hardly ideal.