You’d love to have been sitting behind the Ballydoyle contingent on the plane back from Dubai last weekend.

JOHN OXX’S once-raced Alarazi gets the vote to take the Group Three 2000 Guineas Trial Stakes at Leopardstown this afternoon.

ONLY five are set to face the starter in the 2000 Guineas Trial Stakes at Leopardstown this afternoon, but they can all be given a life of sorts.