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| Newmarket 2000 Guineas - 30th April 2011 |
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Broox Primed to Oppose Frankel in QIPCO 2000 Guineas
29/04/11
Eoghan O’Neill went close to QIPCO 2000 Guineas glory four years ago when he saddled 33/1 shot Vital Equine to finish runner-up behind Cockney Rebel and the French-based Irishman has another talented outsider for this year’s running of the 350,000 Classic in the shape of Broox.
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The Xaar colt is one of 13 declared for the 203rd running of the Classic, staged over a mile at Newmarket’s Rowley Mile Course on Saturday, 30th April, and which was won last year by French raider Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket last season.
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The remaining declared runners are Listed winner QIPCO Guineas Festival also features the 80,000 Group Two QIPCO Jockey Club Stakes (2.30pm) over a mile and a half.
Group One winner Campanologist heads six entries that include Laaheb, Monitor Closely, Native Ruler and the in-form James Given-trained pair of Dandino and Indian Days.
A total of 15 horses are set to line up for the five-furlong 50,000 Group Three Pearl Bloodstock Palace House Stakes (3.45pm), including Group One Nunthorpe Stakes winners Sole Power and Borderlescott, as well as the flying filly Astrophysical Jet.
THE 2000 GUINEAS (THE 203rd RUNNING)
Class 1, Group 1, Total Prize fund 350,000. 3.10pm, Newmarket, Saturday, April 30, 2011, one mile. For three-year-olds only, entire colts and fillies. Weights: colts 9st, fillies 8st 11lb. Entries closed March 1, entries released March 3 (52 entries), Scratchings deadline noon, April 19 (20 remained). Five-day confirmation and 30,000 supplementary stage noon, April 25 (15 remained). Final declaration stage 10.00am, April 28 (13 declarations). Form figures supplied by Weatherbys and are correct up and including the racing of Wednesday, April 27, 2011. May not include some overseas form.
Going: Good to Firm, Good in places
| No/Draw | Form | Horse | Age | Wt | Trainer | Jockey |
| 1 (12) | 112419- | Broox (IRE) 180 | 3 | 9-0 | E J O'Neill | William Buick |
| 2 (10) | 1211- | Casamento (IRE) 189 | 3 | 9-0 | M Al Zarooni | L Dettori |
| 3 (5) | 0419-11 | Dubawi Gold 21 | 3 | 9-0 | R Hannon | R Hughes |
| 4 (1) | 1111-1 | Frankel 14 | 3 | 9-0 | H R A Cecil | T P Queally |
| 5 (4) | 11- | Fury 210 | 3 | 9-0 | W J Haggas | J P Murtagh |
| 6 (7) | 41-2 | Happy Today (USA) 17 | 3 | 9-0 | B J Meehan | Martin Dwyer |
| 7 (8) | 12- | Loving Spirit 197 | 3 | 9-0 | J A R Toller | R Havlin |
| 8 (11) | 114-1 | Native Khan (FR) 16 | 3 | 9-0 | E A L Dunlop | O Peslier |
| 9 (2) | 111- | Pathfork (USA) 231 | 3 | 9-0 t1 | Mrs J Harrington | F M Berry |
| 10 (13) | 13414-2 | Rerouted (USA) 17 | 3 | 9-0 b1 | B W Hills | M Hills |
| 11 (3) | 3121- | Roderic O'Connor (IRE) 181 | 3 | 9-0 | A P O'Brien | R L Moore |
| 12 (9) | 116- | Saamidd 196 | 3 | 9-0 t1 | Saeed bin Suroor | M Barzalona |
| 13 (6) | 561245- | Slim Shadey 217 | 3 | 9-0 | J S Moore | Luke Morris |
13 entries remain after final declarations
2 Irish-trained
1 French-trained
