NEWMARKET’s QIPCO 2000 Guineas on May 6th just got a whole lot more interesting.

While the race had a one-sided look over the winter – with the champion two-year-old of 2016 Churchill favourite by a sizeable margin – that colt has not yet been seen while two very credible challengers emerged in last week’s British trials to add to the recent Prix Djebel winner from France, Al Wukair.