News and previews: Rumplestiltskin is likely be at prohibitive odds to provide Aidan O'Brien with another Group One success in tomorrow's Moyglare Stud Stakes after yesterday's late defection of the unbeaten 1,000 Guineas favourite Flashy Wings.
Mick Channon's filly didn't appear among the final nine at the declaration stage for Ireland's most important prize for juvenile fillies and Flashy Wings will instead wait for the Cheveley Park Stakes later in the month.
"Jaber Abdullah (owner) would prefer the filly to go fresh for the Cheveley Park. She is in good shape but the bottom line is that the owner wants to go straight to Newmarket," said Abdullah's spokesman Joe Mercer yesterday.
The result is that Rumplestiltskin, herself as low as 12 to 1 third favourite for next year's Guineas, looks to dominate tomorrow's race and is a likely odds-on favourite to give her trainer a fourth Moyglare in six years.
O'Brien also runs Hawk Wing's half-sister Race For The Stars while Lonely Ahead, fourth to Flashy Wings in the Lowther, may be best of the two remaining cross-channel hopes.
But Rumplestiltskin's smooth success in the Debutante Stakes over the course and distance last month shouted class and she can make her voice heard at the highest level now.
O'Brien will also have a keen interest in the Group Three Go And Go Round Tower Stakes where Aussie Rules drops back a furlong in order to try and regain the winning groove.
A smooth debut win at the Curragh propelled talk of Classic glory for Aussie Rules next year but that took a blow at Goodwood when the grey colt could only finish fourth to Sir Percy in the Champagne Stakes.
The drop back to six furlongs is an interesting step and O'Brien also has a newcomer in Queen Cleopatra who is a daughter of the 2000 Moyglare winner Sequoyah.
However, speed will be the order here and maybe the English raider Clare Hills could provide most based on a decent fourth in the Queen Mary where she crucially stumbled at the furlong pole.
A total of five of the seven runners in the Group Three Nolan and Brophy Flying Five are British trained and four of them ran in the Nunthorpe last time. The Tatling did best in second, a third successive runner-up placing in the Group One for Milton Bradley's horse, who should get compensation here under Ryan Moore.
An interesting visitor in the €100,000 ladbrokes.ie Cambridgeshire is the Adrian Nicholls ridden Baylaw Star, a four-time Beverley winner but a hardy type whose five-length win last time indicates a horse possibly still on the up.
Last year's Moyglare winner Chelsea Rose runs in the nine-furlong Listed race and the drop back from her mile and a half Leopardstown success last time could leave her vulnerable to the Dermot Weld runner Dream To Dress.