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Sandown winner looks value at 20-1 for 2,000 Guineas - and a juvenile caught my eye at the Curragh for next year's Oaks

It's amazing to think that John Gosden – now with son Thady on the ticket – has only ever won one domestic Guineas, but he might have found the horse to put that right as Saturday’s Solario Stakes winner Field Of Gold looks a big player for next year’s 2,000 Guineas and a touch of value at 20-1.

By next spring it will have been a quarter of a century since Gosden's previous Guineas winner – Lahan in the 1,000 Guineas of 2000 – but he has shown he can ready one for Newmarket granted the right ammunition.

Kingman should have won the 2,000 Guineas of 2014 but was run down on the line by Night Of Thunder when racing alone on the far side. Kingman had won the Solario as a two-year-old and his son, Field Of Gold, was an impressive winner of the same Sandown Group 3.

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