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Five horses to follow at Newmarket on Sunday
By Harry Allwood
Last Updated: Sat 2 May 2026
Top tips for Newmarket on Sunday! Dave Nevison, Angus McNae, Andy Stephens and Alex Scott reveal their best bets on 1000 Guineas day, all live on Racing TV and Racing TV Extra.
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1.45 Newmarket: Lilt
Tipster: Alex Scott.
Best odds: 13-2 (tipped up on Friday at 8-1).
Lilt has had just the one start, but William Haggas’s string are flying at the moment, with an impressive three-year-old winner on the first day of the meeting, so it speaks volumes that he has declared this well-bred filly for this Oaks trial, the Listed Pretty Polly Stakes (1.45 BST), a race he won with the impressive Maqsad in 2019.
This daughter of Lope De Vega and dual Group One heroine Dank ran out a narrow winner at Doncaster on soft ground in October but I think she won in spite of the ground that day, her low action suggesting this faster surface should be more to her liking, whilst it was also likeable how she fought off her nearest challenger under hands and heels having made the running.
She is also bred to stay much further than 1200m (7f), so this step up in trip to 2000m (1m2f) should also suit. Esna sets the form standard in this race, but there has to be doubts over her ability to stay this trip and she is as short as 5-4. Lilt looks the value play at 8-1 with any amount of improvement to come. She is entered in the Prix de Diane.
2.20 Newmarket: Survie
Tipster: Alex Scott.
Best odds: 5-1.
An unusually large field of 13 got to post for the Group Two Dahlia Stakes (2.20 BST) over 1800m (1m1f) and SURVIE, one of the most intriguing new recruits into Britain, looks the one to side with under Ryan Moore.
Trained by Nicolas Clement and Frauke Hermans in France until this year, the five-year-old mare is now with George Boughey and has some of the best form in the book. She came within a head of Classic glory when second in the Prix de Diane in 2024 and has since placed in the Group One Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh, as well as the Prix Jean Romanet. She also finished a solid fourth in the Prix Vermeille in September.
She has mixed making the running with hold-up tactics before, so it is difficult to know with confidence how she will be ridden here, but her proven stamina suggests Ryan Moore may settle her prominently and she could be hard to pass on the galloping Rowley Mile, which should also suit.
The ground is no issue to her and she looks likely to give another solid account of herself. Her latest run over 1600m (1m) on the all-weather followed by a short break should have her primed for this.
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2.55 Newmarket: Dramatic Star
Tipster: Dave Nevison.
Best odds: 5-1.
Dramatic Star hasn’t been at his best so far in two runs this year, but his stable were going through an unusually cold spell at that point. However, the William Haggas team have certainly come alive at this meeting, so a better run is very much expected now.
The five-year-old ran really well to finish second in the Betfair Exchange Old Borough Cup Handicap at Haydock last season, and should have really won on his final start at Southwell last year when narrowly beaten.
He has been dropped another pound since his last run, and Haggas applies cheekpieces for the first time here. This definitely represents a strong chance of an overdue win. He's my nap of the day.
3.35 Newmarket: True Love
Tipster: Angus McNae.
Best odds: 7-1.
True Love can win the 1000 Guineas for Aidan O'Brien. She has had the benefit of a previous start where she won a Group Three at Leopardstown in a fast time.
That race will give her a fitness edge over some of her opponents and the fact that she has proved that she can handle the track when winning the Cheveley Park last season is a bonus.
Aidan O'Brien has won this with a second string before and can do so again with Wayne Lordan in the plate.
5.20 Newmarket: Study Of Words
Tipster: Andy Stephens (RaceiQ).
Best odds: --
Highest ever speed: 38.75mph. Finishing 3f at Newmarket: 38.27sec (next best 40.42sec).
Study Of Words was one of the easiest winners seen at Newmarket last year, winning a backend maiden by 15 lengths in a time 0.71 second quicker than Par despite being heavily eased.
He had previously been touched off by Bay Of Brilliance in a steadily run Goodwood contest that is working out well, when having the worst of the draw. The Frankel colt looks a stayer, so expect William Buick to make plenty of use of him.
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