UltimateBet.com 1000 Guineas rematch is on

Connections of last year?s winner and runner-up set to do battle again as 74 are entered for the UltimateBet.com 1000 Guineas.

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The Sir Michael Stoute-trained and Cheveley Park Stud-owned RED BLOOM, who is reported to have wintered particularly well, and DENEBOLA, trained in France by Pascal Bary and owned by the Niarchos Family, stand out amongst the entries for the UltimateBet.com 1000 Guineas at Newmarket on Sunday 2nd May. They head the ante-post market for the first fillies? Classic and look set to try to follow in the footsteps of RUSSIAN RHYTHM and SIX PERFECTIONS, who fought out the finish of the race last year for the same connections.

RED BLOOM was impressive in winning two out of three starts last season, including a smooth victory in the Group 1 Meon Valley Stud Fillies? Mile at Ascot in October. DENEBOLA looked equally good when winning the Prix Marcel Boussac (G.1) at Longchamp on Arc Day and recent indications are that she is likely to try to avenge the defeat of SIX PERFECTIONS at Newmarket last May.

They are unlikely to have it all their own way, however, with an array of top-class fillies entered against them. As with the UltimateBet.com 2000 Guineas the previous day, Saeed Bin Suroor has numerically the strongest entry with 14 fillies in the race. The most interesting of these is CARRY ON KATIE, previously trained by Jeremy Noseda, who won all three of her starts last year, setting a strong pace to win the Group 1 Sky Bet Cheveley Park Stakes at Newmarket and the Peugeot Lowther Stakes (G.2) at York. CAIRNS is another strong fancy in the ante-post betting, having demonstrated a great turn of foot in coming from last to first in the Group 2 Owen Brown Rockfel Stakes on Champions? Day last October, while CATSTAR won the UAE 1000 Guineas last month.

Looking for its first 1000 Guineas since LAS MENINAS triumphed 10 years ago, Ireland has supplied 15 entries in all, unusually representing no less than 7 different trainers. Aidan O?Brien has 7 entries, the most significant of which is NECKLACE. The Darshaan filly won two out of four starts last season including the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes at The Curragh. Jim Bolger has 3 entries, while Dermot Weld, John Oxx, David Wachman, Edward Lynam and Kevin Prendergast all have one each.

In addition to DENEBOLA, there are a further 3 entries from France. The best of these is probably GREEN SWALLOW, trained by Phillipe Demercastel. She was fourth to DENEBOLA in the Prix Marcel Boussac and won the Prix du Calvados (G.3) at Deauville on her previous start. Eric Libaud?s MISS MAMBO and Rupert Pritchard-Gordon?s MALAICA complete the quartet.

Mark Johnston, who has such a strong hand in the UltimateBet.com 2000 Guineas, pins his hopes on ATTRACTION in the fillies? equivalent. She showed sensational speed as a juvenile with victories in the Queen Mary at Royal Ascot and Newmarket?s Chippenham Lodge Stud Cherry Hinton Stakes before injury curtailed her season.

A large number of other highly promising British-trained fillies figure amongst the entries including Mick Channon?s MAJESTIC DESERT, who went down by only a short-head to CARRY ON KATIE in the Sky Bet Cheveley Park Stakes, and Barry Hills? SECRET CHARM, who created a very good impression in winning two out of two last season.