Bassett out of Guineas Wootton Bassett will not run in the Qipco 2000 Guineas at Newmarket. Richard Fahey's stable star had been rated at 50-50 for the colts' Classic and now the Malton handler has admitted defeat in getting him ready in time for the contest on April 30. "We've run out of time. It's disappointing but we didn't want to go to the Guineas if he wasn't 100%," said Fahey. "We'll look at other options now and we could go to the Curragh for the Irish 2000 Guineas or Longchamp for the French version. "We missed three and half weeks with him just at the wrong time. He was back cantering at the end of February and Newmarket will just come too soon for him." It means that Fahey will now have to delay a potential clash with Henry Cecil's Greenham Stakes winner Frankel. "Hopefully we will meet the wonderhorse somewhere down the line," Fahey added. "I was very impressed with him at Newbury and he was very much the one to beat at Newmarket. Hopefully Wootton Bassett can stay undefeated and that would be grand."
