Up-and-coming jockey Richard Hughes can prove he has made it to the top by winning the Sagitta 2,000 Guineas on Tamburlaine today.
He has long looked the best prospect among the younger generation of riders, with a marvellous sense of timing - shown when he came from last to first to win the Stewards' Cup and Wokingham on Harmonic Way.
And the 28-year-old has time and again conjured victories out of hard-to-win-with horses, earning comparison with a young Lester Piggott.
Harnessing both skills can earn Hughes, the son of Irish National Hunt legend Dessie, his first triumph in a British Classic today.
If his mount has his challenge timed to perfection, he is well up to seeing off his Newmarket rivals. For Tamburlaine is a much more talented animal than a record of one win might suggest.
His victory came in runaway fashion in a hot Newmarket maiden last autumn, and he had previously made Nayef pull out all the stops at Newbury.
But he went to the front too soon in the Racing Post Trophy at Doncaster, where he tied up in the closing stages and went from certain winner to creditable second in the last 200 yards.
And the same thing happened in last month's Greenham Stakes at Newbury, where he faded into fourth place after travelling strongly for a long way.
Richard Hannon also believes the very soft ground counted against him both days and he is full of confidence for today.
The trainer's three previous wins in the first colts' Classic make him well worth listening to, particularly as he has a line to the Guineas form through his Craven Stakes winner King's Ironbridge.
King's Best showed the benefit of a change in tactics by bouncing back from Craven Stakes defeat - at the hands of Hannon's Umistim - to lift the Guineas.
Tamburlaine looks poised to do the same when he can show up the lack of a top-class turn of speed in market leaders Tobougg and Nayef.
Hughes's talents have earned him a retainer with Khaled Abdulla, in whose colours he can lift the opening Ruinart Champagne Conditions Stakes. His mount Terrestrial looked ripe for a step up in trip when a staying-on fifth here last month.
And it would be no surprise to see Hughes completing a hat-trick on Watching, who escapes a penalty in the Victor Chandler Palace House Stakes and is best at this five-furlong trip.
Dora Carrington can give Peter Harris his biggest win by springing a surprise in the Sagitta 1,000 Guineas at Newmarket tomorrow Dora Carrington defied greenness to make a winning start in a maiden at Pontefract before catching Enthused close home to land the Cherry Hinton Stakes at Newmarket.
She then ran a fine third behind Minardi and Superstar Leo in the Group One Heinz 57 Phoenix Stakes, keeping on well after being beaten for speed by Europe's two best sprinting juveniles.
Harris, who has a good first-time-out record, has left no stone unturned in getting the filly fit for her reappearance and he gave her a special work-out under big-race jockey John Reid on the racecourse at Newmarket last week.
