GHAIYYATH fully deserves his status as a hot favourite for the Group 1 Juddmonte International (3.15) as York’s Welcome To Yorkshire Ebor Festival opens in a blaze of glory.
The five-year-old, a 14-length victor at the top level in Germany last September, has improved again for trainer Charlie Appleby in 2020, opening his European campaign by breaking the track record in the Coronation Cup at Newmarket in June.
A month later, Will Buick’s mount once more made all the running to inflict a two-and-a-quarter-length defeat on Enable in the Coral-Eclipse at Sandown Park.
At home over 10 or 12 furlongs, the Godolphin-owned son of Dubai should again prove hard to catch, with 2,000 Guineas hero Kameko feared most.
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