Turn on and tune in to O’Brien’s filly in historic renewal of 1000 Guineas

Love and peace. Or Peaceful. Sounds soppy. But it’s all about money.

It’s wonderful to get a chance to look at antepost markets and plan for races now the game is coming back and Guineas weekend at the start of next month gets the juices flowing.

Of course the action gets going a week tomorrow when Newcastle f inally gets us under way with a bumper card .

With 72-hour declarations part of racing’s return we’ll be able to get stuck into Gosforth Park selections in next week’s column and, hopefully, there will be a couple of little nuggets we can pick up in conversations with yards through this week to flag up.

So given that it’s worth having a peek at the first Classic which will take place on Saturday week and the 1000 Guineas is ripe for picking.

has been long-time favourite for this contest and the odds of 3/1 are decent enough. The Fillies Mile has been a great recent indicator to this contest and the form is there for the Roger Charlton winner.

Nonetheless, you have to try to find something down the betting lists at this stage and, given Aidan O’Brien’s unbelievable record in the race, he’s if this two-year- old champion has returned bigger and better at three.

Buick partnered Pinatubo for the first time this year in a workout in Newmarket and on the racecourse at Chelmsford on Thursday and the bulletins are beyond upbeat.

It’s hard to see defeat, yet at odds on we have to try to find an alternative in the antepost lists for a poke.

If Appleby’s charge has trained on, defeat looks out of the question. But we’ve heard all this before. I’d rather take an each-way alternative and, with the Ballydoyle plans still unclear, I’d look elsewhere.

If the Fillies Mile has been a decent pointer towards the 1000 Guineas, the Group 1 Vertem Futurity Trophy has been one worth looking at for this event the following year.

It was switched last season from Doncaster to Newcastle’s all-weather surface which probably suited

given pedigree. lagged home in fifth but is a previous

Newmarket winner and will be much more at home back on that turf.

Both are 14/1 and the latter would be the best each-way choice of the pair but there’s one at more than double the price worth looking at closely.

Richard Hannon was brilliant at this race and his boy Richard junior has also built up a resectable record.

was put away after a smart debut win last July and Hamdan Al Maktoum’s kid looks seriously overpriced at 33/1.

Following Guineas weekend, the action doesn’t stop and the rejigged Royal Ascot is absolute magic.

The organisers have revealed there are several a lterations to the programme including six extra races being added to the fixture. There will be seven races staged on the first four days, with eight on the final card. That’s no fewer than 36 races. What a week that is going to be.

It’s almost as if we are getting paid back for all of the misery of the past nine weeks in one massive dollop.

The Buckingham Palace Handicap, lost from the card in 2015, will open the meeting with both a Silver Royal Hunt Cup and a Silver Wokingham on offer for those who miss the cut for the main events. Also staged this year oonly will be the Copper HHorse Handicap, the GGolden Gates Handicap aand the Holyroodhouse HHandicap.

The St James’s Palace SStakes and Coronation SStakes will move to the fifinal day to maximise ththe time between them aand the Guineas.

The two- year- old sschedule also has a very differentd look with four of the six races being staged on Friday and Saturday.

The Edward VII and Ribblesdale will now serve as key Epsom Derby and Oaks Trials on the opening day.