Ian Heitman runs through the fancied runners for the month’s big races

The obvious starting point when looking ahead to the first two Classics of the Flat season, the 2000 Guineas and 1000 Guineas, is to look at the entries from Aidan O’Brien’s Ballydoyle stable as he has trained ten 2,000 Guineas winners and six 1,000Guineas winners and, not surprisingly, there are plenty of entries from the yard in both races.
2,000 Guineas 
At the time of writing there were 72 horses entered in the 2,000 Guineas, O’Brien having 12 including three of the top four in the ante-post market. is curr...