Summer of Love!

Turn on and tune in to O’Brien’s filly in historic renewal of 1000 Guineas

- Joe Punter

Love and peace. Or Peaceful. Sounds soppy. But it’s all about money.

It’s wonderful to get a chance to look at antepost markets and plan for races now the game is coming back and Guineas weekend at the start of next month gets the juices flowing.

Of course, the action gets going a week tomorrow when Newcastle finally gets us underway with a bumper card.

With 72-hour declarations part of racing’s return we’ll be able to get stuck into Gosforth Park selections in next week’s column and, hopefully, there will be a couple of little nuggets we can pick up in conversations with yards through this week to flag up.

So given that it’s worth having a peek at the first Classic which will take place on Saturday week and the 1000 Guineas is ripe for picking.

Quadrilateral has been long-time favourite for this contest and the odds of 3/1 are decent enough. The Fillies Mile has been a great recent indicator to this contest and the form is there for the Roger Charlton winner.

Nonetheless, you have to try to find something down the betting lists at this stage and, given Aidan O’Brien’s unbelievable record in the race, he’s got a couple at tasty prices worth an each-way sniff.