SONGLARK, Godolphin’s second string, has been the subject of a significant gamble for tomorrow’ Saturday’s Sagitta 2000 Guineas .

HURRICANE ALAN will bid to give his trainer Richard Hannon a fourth win in the Sagitta 2000 Guineas next month after producing a turn-up in one of the race’s most important trials, the Macau Jockey Club Craven Stakes, at Newmarket yesterday.

IRELAND’S challenge for a fourth consecutive Vodafone Derby victory has been strengthened with the addition of the unbeaten colts Refuse To Bend and Alamshar to the entries for the premier Classic.

THIS weekend’s Classic trials have attracted a bumper number of entries with some of last season’s leading juveniles engaged at Newbury, Thirsk and Leopardstown.