G1 Betfred 1000 Guineas

Achieving the formidable feat of winning the G2 Queen Mary Stakes, G1 Cheveley Park Stakes and G1 1,000 Guineas, Ballydoyle's True Love (No Nay Never) entered hallowed territory at Newmarket on Sunday. Sent off at 5-1, the second-string for Aidan O'Brien was always travelling like the winner stalking the strongest pace among the stand's-side group and when sent by Wayne Lordan swamped Evolutionist (Night Of Thunder) to beat that rival by 1 3/4 lengths. Venetian Lace (Masar) made it a one-two-three for the Group 1 fillies in the line-up, another...

Sunday, Kyoto, Japan, post time: 15:40, TENNO SHO (SPRING)-G1, ¥570,000,000, 4yo/up, 3200mT Field: Vermicelles (Jpn) (Gold Ship {Jpn}), Sunrise Soleil (Jpn) (Kizuna {Jpn}), Admire Terra (Jpn) (Rey De Oro {Jpn}), Aqua Vernal (Jpn) (Epiphaneia {Jpn}), Keiai Sandera (Jpn) (Silver State {Jpn}), Echt (Jpn) (Rulership {Jpn}), Croix Du Nord (Jpn) (Kitasan Black {Jpn}), Shin Emperor (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}), Precious Day (Jpn) (New Year's Day), Meiner Campana (Jpn) (Gold Ship {Jpn}), Tagano Dude (Jpn) (Yamakatsu Ace {Jpn}), Redentor (Jpn) (Rulership {Jpn}), Mystery Way (Jpn) (Just A Way {Jpn}), Hohelied (Jpn) (Rulership {Jpn}),...

Ballydoyle's Precise (Starspangledbanner) will face 18 peers in Sunday's G1 Betfred 1000 Guineas at Newmarket, with Ryan Moore set to partner the Moyglare Stud Stakes and Fillies' Mile winner for the first time. She is drawn two for the mile Classic, with one of her chief rivals Venetian Sun (Starman) next door in stall one furthest away from the stands' rail. Tony Bloom and Ian McAleavy's Prix Morny winner is one of two in the race for Karl Burke, with her regular rider Clifford Lee maintaining the partnership. Burke's other runner...

It was the perceived wisdom of 2024 that the 2-year-old fillies were a level above the colts and as Newmarket's two mile Classics loom this weekend, we get a first measurement of whether that has carried over. On the face of it, the line-ups for the Betfred-sponsored 2,000 and 1,000 Guineas suggest that the fillies' monument is the one most anticipated among Suffolk's hardcore. There's a good old Godolphin-Ballydoyle stand-off between two unbeaten peer leaders and TDN Rising Stars in Desert Flower and Lake Victoria to come on Sunday and while it...

In what is teed up to be a potentially stellar renewal of Newmarket's G1 Betfred 1,000 Guineas on Sunday, Godolphin's TDN Rising Star Desert Flower and Ballydoyle's TDN Rising Star Lake Victoria head a cast of ten. As in the 2,000 Guineas, Aidan O'Brien has just one contender in the unbeaten triple top-level-winning daughter of Frankel, having withdrawn his other three entries including Bedtime Story and Exactly, and her meeting with the Charlie Appleby-trained G1 Fillies' Mile-winning daughter of Night Of Thunder is one to relish. Other notables include another Frankel special in Juddmonte's...