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Sunday sees the running of the 1000 Guineas for the 3yo fillies.

G1 over 1600m like the boys race and on good going with Dermot Weld's Tahiyra the 4/9 favourite with Chris Hayes on board the Aga Khan's lovely Siyouni filly.  It would be a great coup for Siyouni if his daughter could copy his son in winning the appropriate Guineas.

Meditate is an O'Brien-Moore No Nay Never filly who is at 9/2 and she will certainly appreciate the good ground.

Tahiyra's stablemate Tarawa is by Shamardal and could well be placed here and 10/1 makes that an attractive proposition.

Two other good races are the Tattersall's Gold Cup G1 over 2100m and the Lanwades Stud G2 for f&m over 1600m with 8 runners.

The Gold Cup has only 6 starters and it looks to be very close between Sir Michael Stoute's Bay Bridge with Richard Kingscote riding and French raider Vadeni with Soumillon riding for Rouget. Both are on 7/4.  The Aidan O'Brien trained Luxembourg on 11/4 is not without a good chance on 11/4 – Ryan Moore riding.

The Lanwades Stud (home of Alpinista) has Honey Girl for Joseph O'Brien on 3/1 with DB McGonagle riding and Insinuendo on the same quote for McCreery-McDonough.  However we like the chances of Jumbly 9/2 also for Joseph with Ryan Moore on board.