REPORTS of an injury scare for leading 2000 Guineas hope Revoque were dismissed yesterday as "a storm in a teacup". A story in yesterday's Sun revealed that the Peter Chapple-Hyam-trained three-year-old, officially rated Europe's best juvenile last season, has suffered a setback.
But Chapple-Hyam's assistant Ben Sangster, son of the unbeaten colt's owner Robert Sangster, said: "It is making a mountain out of a molehill. He has just pulled a small muscle on the lower part of a hind-leg but it is something and nothing.
"It absolutely bolted down with rain yesterday so he wouldn't have been able to work anyway. He will probably just miss one day's cantering and be back working tomorrow. "It's a storm in a teacup."
Revoque, winner of two Group One races in France last year, is 11 to 2 second favourite for the 2000 Guineas with William Hill, behind Bahhare whose price was cut from 4 to 1 in to 7 to 2 yesterday.
But Sangster warned: "My father said in the papers that he is not sure whether he will go for the French or English Guineas. We'll have to see how it goes in the spring. But the Guineas is a long way off and we haven't asked too many questions of our horses yet."
