Dylan Hill thinks the sprint division is ripe for a youngster to take over

My number one rule for the Ten To Follow is to keep things simple. The big points come in the Group 1 races, especially the bonus races, so your list should comprise the most likely winners of those.

In addition, I'd be particularly keen on horses we know are going for the earliest bonus races and will have the entire duration of the competition to accrue points, unlike horses going for the Irish Classics this weekend, before the competition starts next Tuesday, or those being aimed at the second half of the season. That kind of horse can always be added in the transfer window.

This time next month 11 of the 25 bonus races will already have been run and those races contain four horses currently no bigger than 13-8. Unless you have a strong view they won't be winning, I would suggest the four in question – Enable, Stradivarius, Love and Japan – have to be in your ten.

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That already gives me two middle-distance horses in Enable and Japan, but the bonus races are skewed in favour of those types so I will add a third in Kameko, who will go off Derby favourite and could also drop in trip if he doesn't stay. I would rather have him than Irish Derby favourite Mogul, who has far more to prove.

I also want a three-year-old miler for the St James's Palace Stakes, with Wichita preferred to Pinatubo. King Of Change, who is proven at Ascot, is a worthy favourite for the Queen Anne and that would hopefully then put us in pole position for the Sussex Stakes later in the summer as well.

Three of the early bonus races are run over six furlongs, culminating in the July Cup, so you have to decide whether you trust the three-year-old sprinters or the older generation. Given most of the big players in this division last year have retired, this looks ripe for a youngster and I'll take the exciting Pierre Lapin.

The King's Stand isn't a bonus race, but even so there are good points on offer for even a standard Group 1 and Battaash, who doesn't have Blue Point to worry about this year, is a worthy favourite to break his hoodoo before potentially picking up a bigger haul in the Nunthorpe. For similar reasons I'll also take Veracious, a mare who should do well in non-bonus Group 1 races against her own sex.

Dylan Hill's Ten To Follow

Battaash
Enable
Japan
Kameko
King Of Change
Love
Pierre Lapin
Stradivarius
Veracious
Wichita

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