For practical purposes, the 2022 British Flat season on turf will finally be off and running at 1.15pm on Tuesday, when 10 juvenile fillies are due to launch this year’s Craven meeting on the Rowley Mile at Newmarket. And the first significant Classic trial is not far behind, with five of the nine runners in the Group Three Nell Gwyn Stakes also holding entries in the 1,000 Guineas on 1 May.
The first three fillies in the betting, and the only ones likely to start at single-figure odds, are all engaged in the Classic, with Hello You and Cachet closely matched on their form last year, both in the Rockfel over Tuesday’s track and trip and then in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies’ Turf at Del Mar in November.
