FAHD SALMAN can make the perfect start to the Guineas Festival at Newmarket today by winning the Pertemps Jockey Club Stakes with Riyadian.

The owner has high hopes of taking tomorrow's 2,000 Guineas with recent Feilden Stakes winner Storm Trooper who has been well supported for the first colts' Classic of late.

Racegoers should see his dark green silks in the winner's enclosure a day early as Riyadian looks more than good enough to land today's Group Two prize.

The colt developed into a high class performer last autumn. He trotted up in a minor event at Doncaster and the Cumberland Lodge Stakes at Ascot before a highly creditable second to Spectrum in the Champion Stakes here.

There is even better to come this year from an animal too backward to race as a two year old and still less than the finished article last season. Riyadian is likely to prove one of the middle distance stars of 1996 and should not be missed off bottom weight here.

Oaks winner Moonshell is certainly up against it conceding him 2lb, particularly as a well publicised training setback has restricted her to just one race since Epsom, in which she ran well below Classic winning form

Hangover Square can step up on his debut filth at Newbury to land the opening NGK Spark Plugs Arlington Auction Maiden. He took on Royal Ascot candidates Daylight In Dubai and Granny's Pet first time out and was far from out of his depth for most of the way, looking set to finish a close third until his stamina gave out late on.

He'll be all the better for the outing and trainer Richard Hannon looks to have found him the perfect opportunity to strike winning form today.