YIBIR cannot sensibly be opposed in the Group 2 Jockey Club Stakes (3.35) as Newmarket’s Guineas Festival gets underway.
After a win in York’s Group 2 Great Voltigeur last August, the Charlie Appleby trainee scored at Belmont Park the following month before collecting in the Breeders’ Cup Turf at Del Mar in November. William Buick’s mount will go off at prohibitive odds, but enjoys a class edge on his five opponents.
Appleby supplies the favourite for the Listed Newmarket Stakes in the form of Nations Pride. However Roger Varian’s SUBASTAR impressed on his debut at the track last September, and has plenty more to offer. Jockey David Egan has bright prospects of an ITV double aboard ABLE KANE in the Betfair Daily Rewards Handicap (3.00).
A drop down to Listed level should do the trick for GUBBASS, tried in Group company on his last four outings, in the King Charles II Stakes (3.00). At Goodwood, SILENCE PLEASE gets the vote to make the perfect start for Andrew Balding by landing the Listed British Stallion Studs EBF Daisy Warwick Fillies' Stakes (3.15).
Top weight may not stop CLARENDON HOUSE in the William Hill Pick Your Places Handicap (2.40), while TUSCAN has plenty going for him in the British Stallion Studs EBF Conditions Stakes (2.05).
Friday racing tips
NEWMARKET
1.15 CHASSERAL
1.50 SUBASTAR
2.25 GUBBASS
3.00 ABLE KANE (NB)
3.35 YIBIR
4.10 PAWAPURI
4.45 CAROLUS MAGNUS
GOODWOOD
1.30 TUSCAN
2.05 ROCKET RODNEY
2.40 CLARENDON HOUSE
3.15 SILENCE PLEASE
3.50 CHIPSTEAD
4.25 WODETON
5.00 SYSTEMIC
PUNCHESTOWN
3.40 ALPHA MALE
4.15 FIGHTER ALLEN
4.50 ELIMAY
5.25 HONEYSUCKLE
6.00 THREE STRIPE LIFE
6.35 VAUCELET
7.10 EL FABIOLO
7.45 GOLDEN WONDER’S
WOLVERHAMPTON
1.00 WELOOF
1.40 CALIN’S LAD
2.15 GUSTAV GRAVES
2.50 STRATEGIC FORTUNE
3.25 SWEEPING STATEMENT
4.00 CAPTAIN KANE
4.35 DEEP SIGH
CHELTENHAM
4.40 ENVOYE SPECIAL
5.15 FAMOUS CLERMONT
5.50 MORATORIUM
6.25 CARYTO DES BROSSES
7.00 KALABALOO
7.35 SHANTOU FLYER
8.10 AMI DESBOIS
NEWCASTLE
5.05 RANGER BOB
5.35 LYSANDER
6.10 PETER THE GREAT
6.45 GOLDEN VOICE
7.20 KING’S KNIGHT
7.55 RED ZONE (NAP)
8.30 JOSHUA R
