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Martin Dixon's 2000 Guineas Best Bet

By Racing TV

Last Updated: Fri 1 May 2026

Distant Storm - 2000 Guineas - 3:35 Newmarket Saturday

I think Distant Storm’s form is better as it stands at the moment. He comes from finishing third in the Dewhurst last year, handles the track really well. That was a good run in the Dewhurst, one that suggested that he was ready to go up to a mile, even as a two-year-old, the way that he finished off his race. He was strong at the line.

Being fresh with him could be a good angle as well. He was there quick off the back of his rampant win in the Tattersall Stakes when he went to the Dewhurst, and that might have just knocked a few spots off him, sort of going into the Dewhurst potentially. I like him.

He's got a proper Guineas pedigree as well. He's by Night Of Thunder out of a mare, Date with Destiny, who was the only progeny of George Washington, who himself obviously was an impressive Guineas winner. So he has a proper pedigree for the Guineas and Charlie Appleby has won three of the last four renewals of the race as well and he can very much get one ready.

Stall two, is that a little bit on the flank? It is, but it doesn't bother me too much. Coroebus won it from stall one and there's been other horses that have won it in low numbers in recent years. He's drawn almost next to Alparslan who we saw in the Greenham and would be one of the pace angles, I think.

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