Horse racing: Precise the favourite for 1,000 Guineas as O’Brien chases record – live

• Newmarket’s marquee race starts at 3.35pm (BST)

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Good afternoon from the historic Rowley Mile on Newmarket heath, where the 1,000 Guineas, the fillies’ equivalent of yesterday’s 2,000 Guineas, is due off at 3.35. Nineteen runners and riders will go to post, aiming to add their names to a roll of honour that dates back to 1814.

Precise, the winner of the Fillies’ Mile here over the Guineas trip last autumn, will set off as a warm favourite to give Aidan O’Brien an eighth win in the Classic, one short of the all-time record of nine set by Robert Robson in the early years of the race. Robson, remarkably, won all but one of the runnings between 1818 and 1827 – something of a contrast with O’Brien, who has hit a fallow spell in both Newmarket Classics since Mother Earth won the 1,000 Guineas in 2021.