Desmond Stoneham

ANDRÉ Fabre won the 2000 Guineas 20 years ago with Pennecamp and in 1993 with Zafonic. He has an excellent chance of taking the English classic again with Territories who has been supplemented into the race.

At odds of 6/1, Territories looks excellent value and has already shown top form this season. The son of Invincible Spirit was beaten a length and a half by Ride Like The Wind when the pair made their racing debuts and Freddy Head will also let that colt take his chance. It seems strange but Ride Like the Wind is a rank outsider.

There is little doubt that Territories was hampered when making his late challenge in the Qatar Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere. The current Guineas favourite Gleneagles fell foul of the French rules of racing and was placed third behind Full Mast and Territories. Territories reappeared in the Prix de Fontainebleau and outclassed his rivals to win by two lengths after showing an impressive turn of foot from one and a half furlongs out.

Beaten nearly nine lengths by The Wow Signal in the Darley Prix Morny, Ride Like The Wind came with a late run to take the Prix Djebel at Maisons-Laffitte last month by a head from Make Believe.

The André Fabre-trained Fintry takes her chance in the Dahlia Stakes and she was marked down for the Coronation Stakes at Ascot after winning the Group 2 Prix de Sandringham but had a training set back.

The filly then won at Sandown Park and was third to Integral and her stablemate Miss France (first winner of the 1000 Guineas for Fabre) in the Kingdom Of Bahrain Sun Chariot Stakes. Fintry will be making her seasonal debut in the Dahlia, which Fabre took last year with Esoterique.