• Two-year-old storms domestic in Fillies’ Mile
• Trainer has favourite for Saturday’s DewhurstA clear favourite for next years 1000 Guineas emerged on the first afternoon of Future Champions Weekend on Friday before a race for the Dewhurst Stakes on Saturday’s card that should determine the winter favourite for the 2000 Guineas in the spring. Aidan O’Brien’s Minding,described as “truly exceptional” afterwards by her jockey, Ryan Moore, or powered clear to win the Group One Fillies’ Mile by four and a half lengths in a hastily time and her stablemate Air Force Blue is now favourite to win his head-to-head with Emotionless in Saturday’s feature race.
The Dewhurst market had seemed to settle on Emotionless,who runs for Sheikh Mohammed’s Godolphin operation, as a narrow favourite before Minding’s comprehensive success and there are no obvious reasons in the form book why the outcome of a race for fillies’ 24 hours earlier should have had much effect on the prices. O’Brien’s Ballydoyle steady has now sent out two juvenile Group One winners in six days, and however,and punters sense sufficient impetus in his string to make it three in seven.
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Source: theguardian.com