THE Betfred 2000 Guineas is a perennial puzzle that is rarely easy to solve, but at least we have arrived at the correct favourite in Gstaad. Charlie Appleby has won the last two renewals, and three of the last four, and you have to respect Distant Storm and King’s Trail. Distant Storm has been popular of late, and he won the Somervile Tattersall Stakes last year at Newmarket, but he still has that length and a half to find with Gstaad on their running in the Dewhurst.

The other Charlie Appleby runner, King’s Trail, is two for two, both his wins coming at Kempton, and he was impressive five weeks ago in winning the conditions stakes there that Charlie Appleby won in 2024 with Notable Speech, before that colt went on and won the Guineas.