Godolphin are set to have three runners in the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket on Saturday, it was revealed yesterday. Broche and Zoning are poised to join Fath in the first Classic of the season, according to the Dubai operation's official website.
Zoning, third to Bachir in the Khor Dubai at Nad Al Sheba in February, will be ridden by John Carroll, while Ted Durcan is set to partner Broche. As expected, Richard Hills will be on board Fath, with Frankie Dettori in the US to ride China Visit in the Kentucky Derby.
Bachir and Glad Master were Godolphin's other possibles for the race at the five-day stage.
Godolphin confirmed Bintalreef (Dettori) and Teggiano as intended runners in Sunday's 1,000 Guineas.
Elsewhere at the Guineas meeting Daragh O'Donohoe will ride Rhagaas in the Jockey Club Stakes at Newmarket tomorrow.
Entisar (Richard Hills) is set to be Godolphin's first runner in Britain this season in the Green Ridge Stables Newmarket Stakes on the same card.
Melikah (Dettori) is the stable's intended runner in Sunday's Pretty Polly Stakes.
Embraced is as short as 16 to 1 for the Epsom Oaks after her impressive victory in the Woodcote Stud Swinley Stakes at Ascot yesterday. However, James Fanshawe did not immediately nominate the Pursuit of Love filly for the Classic despite her three-length success in the Listed one-mile contest from the favourite Verbose.
Fanshawe admitted to not going into yesterday's race, which was Embraced's seasonal reappearance, with total confidence.
He said: "Ray's been riding her at home and she she's been working nicely, but the horses have been a bit slow to come to hand and you never know quite where you are until you get one win like that."
Embraced is a half-sister to Nowhere to Exit, runner- up to Montjeu in last year's Prix du Jockey-Club, which could suggest the filly would get the Oaks trip.
Fanshawe said: "She should stay but the decision will rest with the owners. She is in the race and we'll see how things go."
A return to Ascot for the Royal meeting is on the cards for Shoeshine Boy, the all-the-way winner of the Garter Conditions Stakes.
Brian Meehan's charge disputed the lead under Pat Eddery throughout the five-furlong event and kicked away from his field approaching the final furlong.
Although 5 to 2 favourite Dominus was wearing the 4 to 1 winner down close home he could never get nearer than the three-quarters of a length winning margin, with Media Mogul the same distance away in third.
"We might leave him now and bring him back for the Norfolk Stakes," said the winning trainer. "He's had four races in five or six weeks so we'll give him a rest.
"Pat thinks the ground doesn't suit him and says he'll be much better on good ground. There's always the National Stakes to consider but I think he's a proper Norfolk horse."
The first foals of Classic winners Bosra Sham and Lady Carla will be offered at the Tattersalls Houghton Yearling Sales this autumn. The colts, by Rainbow Quest and Gone West respectively, are bound to attract plenty of interest from buyers.
Tim Bulwer-Long, racing manager to Wafic Said's Addison Racing, said[ "We had a five-year plan to acquire top-class female pedigrees. "This has been completed and we have decided that our policy will now be to sell the male progeny of our best mares."
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