Cut A Dash

There's a change to the usual format this week as we focus on the crème de la crème of the two-year-olds, looking forward to some significant clashes in store at Royal Ascot next week. Timeform's highest-rated juvenile heading into Royal Ascot is the unbeaten G3 Marble Hill Stakes hero Great Barrier Reef (No Nay Never), who appears to have everything that you could wish to find in a potential two-year-old winner at this meeting. For a start, Great Barrier Reef is by No Nay Never, the most prolific sire of...

The Timeform rankings return to highlight the top-rated maiden/novice winners in Britain and Ireland from the last fortnight, with a Richard Hannon-trained colt from York's Dante Festival leading the way.  =3. BARROW BOY (IRE) Bayside Boy (Ire) - Illumined (Ire), by Sea The Moon (Ger) Timeform performance rating: 92 Trained by Gavin Cromwell, Barrow Boy was a dominant winner of the near-6f maiden run at Navan on May 16, fully confirming the promise of last month's debut when he chased home Tribeca (Blue Point) over the same course and distance....