Seldom does a Henry Cecil-trained horse win a recognised Classic trial without barging its way to the front of the market for the race in question.

So the bookmakers' offer of Wince at 16 to 1 for the Sagitta 1,000 Guineas after a clearcut, if workmanlike, victory in yesterday's Dubai Duty Free Stakes will prompt a smile from blind followers of Warren Place.

Coral, Ladbrokes and William Hill all list the daughter of Selkirk at 16 to 1 after her length-and-a-half beating of Golden Silca in the Group Three Newmarket warm-up.

No doubt, the form of the race falls way short of the Classic benchmark, but Wince showed a turn of speed between horses to win it and Cecil rates her good enough to represent Prince Khalid Abdulla, whose Rainbow High took the concluding Levy Board Seventh Race Handicap, on Sunday, May 2nd, unless Andre Fabre has a better filly to run instead.

"She is stronger and has done well," he said. "She was always going very easily and it was a question of waiting for the gap.

"She is in at Newmarket, but it depends what Prince Abdulla decides, and what Andre Fabre has in France.

"She is not what we call tuned up, and hopefully she will come on and it will be worth running her."

Wince's presence on the July Course would force Fallon to reject the coveted spare on Guineas favourite Moiava, made available by the suspension of Oliver Doleuze.

"If she runs, he rides," asserted Cecil. "He is my jockey."

Paul Cole may bid to better an already impressive record in Royal Ascot's two-year-old races with Porcini, convincing debut winner of the opening European Breeders Fund Beckhampton Novice Stakes.

After his colt's length-and-a-half win over Hoh Discovery, Cole, who has won three of the last eight runnings of the Coventry Stakes, confirmed the racecard's claim that Porcini had been "reported to be showing plenty of pace at home".

"He goes very well," he said. "Everybody hopes you might have a horse good enough for Royal Ascot and we will give him another run and a month to develop, and see if he is.

"I will try to keep up my strikerate but it is a difficult act to follow."

The racecard was less help in the National Golf Week Rated Stakes, in which it described Clive Brittain's Badagara as facing a "reasonably stiffish task" on his handicap and seasonal debut. He won at 25 to 1.

The two maidens on the card threw up Classic aspirants.

Peter Makin's Presumed could be supplemented for the Irish 1,000 Guineas or Poule d'Essai des Pouliches after an impressive first effort in the Bridget Maiden Fillies' Stakes, in which she floored John Gosden's 8 to 11 favourite Apple of Kent.

And David Elsworth has the Vodafone Derby in his contemplation for Salford Express, winner of the Peter Smith Memorial Stakes.

"We will take him seriously and run him in a trial, and if he came through that, who knows?" said the trainer of the half-brother to Definite Article.