Prix Greffulhe

Tuesday, Saint-Cloud, France, post time: 15:05, PRIX GREFFULHE-G3, €73,200, 3yo, 10 1/2fT Field: Alam (Fr) (Zelzal {Fr}), Regal Resolve (GB) (Kingman {GB}), Hello Jo (Fr) (Hello Youmzain {Fr}), Waybreaker (Fr) (Galiway {GB}). TDN Analysis: Kudos to the quartet on parade, but a disappointingly low turnout for a contest with luminaries such as Darshaan, Peintre Celebre, Montjeu, et al, on the roll of honour. Francis Graffard, whose prior wins came with Sumbal in 2015 and Midak last year, is double-handed this time around. Mickael Barzalona is aboard October's Listed Prix Isonomy...

   Saturday's G1 QIPCO 2000 Guineas hosts the customary heavyweights of the previous year's scene, with the likes of Thunder Moon (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}), Wembley (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), Van Gogh (American Pharoah), One Ruler (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) and Lucky Vega (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) all bringing Group 1 form to the table, but in the year that racing lost Sheikh Hamdan could there be a sense of destiny in the inclusion of the unproven 'TDN Rising Star' Mutasaabeq (GB) (Invincible Spirit {Ire})? As far as visual impressions go, there...

Saturday is another big day in the life of Charlie Appleby, but the captain of Moulton Paddocks is approaching the G1 QIPCO 2000 Guineas with an infectious enthusiasm as the imperturbable Pinatubo (Ire) (Shamardal) makes the short journey to the other side of Newmarket for his first 3-year-old examination. Last year's imperious G1 Vincent O'Brien National S. and G1 Dewhurst S. winner knows nothing of the heavy weight of expectation on him and his pilot William Buick and is mentally well-equipped to handle any surrounding nervous energy. Having made it...