Winter (Aidan O'Brien IRE) heads the entries for the £600,000 G1 Qatar Nassau Stakes, staged over just short of 10 furlongs for fillies and mares.

Unlike the Derby, which looks as open a renewal as we have seen in recent years, Friday’s Oaks – the third British classic of the season – is unsurprisingly one-sided when it comes to the ante-post betting market.

A Classic Godolphin-Coolmore confrontation is on the cards as the Group 1 winners Wuheida and Rhododendron are set to take each other on in the 204th running of the £500,000 QIPCO 1000 Guineas at Newmarket’s Rowley Mile Racecourse on Sunday, 7th May.

Fresh from Sunday’s Group 1 triumph with Wuheida in the Prix Marcel Boussac, trainer Charlie Appleby is excited by the prospects of another highly-regarded two-year-old Dubawi filly, Sobetsu, in Friday’s (7th October) Group 1 Dubai Fillies’ Mile at Newmarket’s Rowley Mile Racecourse.