BUICK: NATIVE TRAIL ‘KEEPS COMING UP WITH THE GOODS’

William Buick hopes unbeaten Native Trail will keep “coming up with the goods” and justify short- priced favouritism in the Qipco 2000 Guineas at Newmarket today.

The son of Oasis Dream was unbeaten in four starts as a juvenile, winning Group One races in the National Stakes and Dewhurst.

And he made it five from five when scoring with ease in the Craven Stakes over course and distance on his first run as a three-year- old.

Godolphin’s number one jockey Buick heads to Headquarters in search of his fifth British Classic success.

Should Native Trail succeed, it would give both himself and trainer Charlie Appleby a first triumph in the mile colts’ Classic.

Produced

Buick ( right) feels Native Trail, who is drawn widest of all in stall 15, has answered every bell, and said: “He has done nothing wrong. He has come through this year and produced in the Craven.

“He was always a nice horse physically — and when he won first time out at Sandown, you knew you had a nice horse on your hands, but he took every step that was asked of him in his stride and everything you asked of him. He just keeps coming up with the goods.

“There is no point in looking back — he has to go and do it as a three-year- old.”

The 33-year- old has no qualms about the horse’s abi l ity to handle the preliminaries and believes he is professional enough to take things in his stride on the big stage.

Solid

“He has a solid temperament,” added Buick. “He is a horse who has plenty of confidence. On the track and at home, he just goes about his business.”

However, stablemate Coroebus, who will be ridden by James Doyle, is second-favourite with most firms and rates a “big threat”, according to Buick.

“Coroebus is a danger,” he said.