2,000 Guineas favourite Too Darn Hot ruled out of Greenham comeback

Qipco 2,000 Guineas favourite Too Darn Hot will miss his intended prep run for the Newmarket Classic in the Greenham Stakes this weekend.

Trainer John Gosden said on Wednesday evening: "Too Darn Hot breezed comfortably this morning under Frankie Dettori on the Al Bahathri but tonight at evening stables he was found to have some heat in his splint bone.

"Unfortunately he'll have to miss Newbury as he'll have a few easy days. The plan is to take him straight to the Qipco 2,000 Guineas."

Too Darn Hot, who won all four starts as a juvenile, culminating in the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes, had been 1-3 favourite to make a successful return at Newbury this Saturday in a race sponsored by his owner Andrew Lloyd Webber's Watership Down Stud.

The son of Dubawi remains hot favourite for the 2,000 Guineas on May 4, at a best-priced 11-10.

New market leader for the Group 3 Greenham at 5-2 is the Richard Hannon-trained Boitron, winner of both his previous starts at the Berkshire course and who was fourth in the Jean-Luc Lagardere on his final run as a two-year-old.

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