1000 Guineas: Today’s big race is the Irish 1000 Guineas. The front page photo is of Masarika, who will probably start favourite. But the front page today also includes a small picture of a detail of last Saturday’s front page. Dave Baker selected Sadler’s Wells to win last Saturday’s Irish 2000 Guineas, and his followers were rewarded with a 10/1 win. For today’s classic, Baker tips Desirable.

Also on today’s front page, there is a short filler piece of news that a mare in Kentucky has given birth to a zebra foal! This is the first known successful equine embryo transplant. The zebra embryo was placed in the mare’s womb about a month ago. This piece of news is accompanied by a Bob Fannin cartoon showing mare with zebra foal standing alongside, with two men watching. One man says: “No apartheid here.”