Sergei Diaghilev

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 (May 18-31), with the team at Wathnan Racing sitting pretty following impressive victories for two of its expensive breeze-up purchases. 5. SERGEI DIAGHILEV (IRE) Wootton Bassett (GB) - Embellish (Ire), by Galileo (Ire) Timeform performance rating: 90 For the fourth consecutive year, the 6f maiden run at the Curragh on May 23 was won by Aidan O'Brien and Ryan Moore, with odds-on favourite Sergei Diaghilev producing a polished display to follow in...

1.45 Haydock, Listed, 4yo/up, f/m, 10f 100yT George Strawbridge's homebred FRIENDLY SOUL (GB) (Kingman {GB}), who has won five of six prior outings, makes her first start since posting a career highlight in 2024's G1 Prix de l'Opera. She is a sibling of Group 1 winners With You (GB) (Dansili {GB}), Call The Wind (GB) (Frankel {GB}) and We Are (Ire) (Dansili {GB}) and the John and Thady Gosden trainee faces eight rivals, including last year's G1 Irish Oaks runner-up Wemightakedlongway (Ire) (Australia {GB}), in this Listed Hedge Of Oak...