Newmarket’s marquee race starts at 3.35pm (BST)
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1,000 Guineas contender: Venetian Sun
The (current) second-favourite for today’s Classic was, like Precise, a Group One winner as a juvenile, though in her case it was in a six-furlong event, the Prix Morny at Deauville last August.
Karl Burke’s filly beat Gstaad in a head-bobbing finish, and that form looks a fair bit better after Aidan O’Brien’s colt finished second behind Bow Echo in the 2,000 Guineas here yesterday. Venetian Sun rounded off her two-year-old season in September, finishing two-and-a-half lengths behind Precise in the Moyglare Stud Stakes, and while that bare form gives her something to find with the favourite, she did not get much luck in running.
