2000 Guineas shocker Makfi is ready for a rematch with Canford Cliffs and Dick Turpin in the St James's Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot. The highlight on Day One is firmly on the cards for the unbeaten French colt, who stunned punters with his 33-1 victory at Newmarket.
That form has worked out extremely well, with runner-up Dick Turpin occupying the same position in the France, and Canford Cliffs, third at HQ, storming home in the Irish Guineas at the Curragh.
Makfi's trainer Mikel Delzangles said: "Canford Cliffs won very easily and I think the mile in Ireland suited him well. Makfi has not been doing too much, but he came back from Newmarket very well and we have kept his condition.
"He has only had three runs in his life, two of them this year. He is much harder, he knows he is a racehorse now and is going the right way."
Delzangles sent out Chineur to win the King's Stand the year (2005) the meeting was held at York.
Coral: 7-4 Canford Cliffs, 2 Makfi, 5 Dick Turpin, Steinbeck.
Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum's racing manager Angus Gold believes a crack at the Coronation Stakes with Irish 1000 Guineas winner Bethrah could prove too tempting to resist.
The Dermot Weld-trained filly would need to be supplemented for the race won by Ghanaati in the Sheikh's colours last season.
Ed Dunlop's Snow Fairy will be supplemented for the Oaks at Epsom on June 4 at a cost of £20,000 - and will be ridden by champion Ryan Moore.
The daughter of Intikhab routed what looked to be a competitive field at Goodwood on her first start over 10 furlongs.
While Dunlop admits an extra two furlongs is another step into the unknown, connections decided to take the plunge.
Ladbrokes: 5 Rumoush, Aviate, 7 Timepiece, 10 Akdarena, Remember When, 12 Sajjhaa, 14 Ceilidh House, Gertrude Bell, Snow Fairy, 16 bar.
Tricky stuff today punters but I'm hoping for a big run from the Michael Jarvis-trained Yashrid (3.10) and Philip Robinson at Ripon.
Stepped up in trip now after three runs over a mile to earn a handicap mark, the son of Rahy could be running off a fairly lenient mark.
The form of Tim Easterby's Off Chance (3.40) looks rock solid and she can open her seasonal account under regular pilot Duran Fentiman.
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