James Doyle to ride Fair Eva in the Qipco 1000 Guineas


James Doyle looks set to team up with Fair Eva for the first time in the Qipco 1000 Guineas.

Trainer Roger Charlton is a big fan of the jockey, who has recently returned from a spell in Australia riding for his principal employers Godolphin.

Doyle also won on the Charlton-trained Time Chaser, a sister to Time Test, in the Khalid Abdullah silks at Kempton on Monday.

Fair Eva, a Group Three-winning daughter of Frankel, is as low as 8-1 for the Fillies' Classic, behind only Aidan O'Brien's favourite Rhododendron.

"I'm very pleased with her and I'm satisfied she will stay a mile well," Charlton told At The Races.

"It would appear the Frankels definitely are training on as they're running very well.

"For a chestnut filly she has a very good temperament and, if anything, it is a job to get the weight off her rather than put it on her.

"I think she has an excellent chance of finishing in the first four as she's already a Group Three winner and Group Two-placed – she justifies her place. 

"I'm not going to say she'll win the Guineas, because that would be stupid to say, but she's where we want her to be but it's a tough old race, as Classics should be.

"It's great to have James back. He rode a winner for me at Kempton on Monday and I hope that he will be riding Fair Eva for Juddmonte Farms in the Guineas."

 

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