Beethoven out of 2000 Guineas after setback

BEETHOVEN, last season’s Dewhurst winner, has been ruled out of the StanJames.com 2000 Guineas at Newmarket.

Aidan O’Brien’s Oratorio colt suffered a setback in training and will instead be targeted at the French 2000 Guineas on May 16.

The Ballydoyle handler told his website, www.aidanobrien.ie: “Beethoven has met with a slight training setback and therefore is going to have an easy week this week.