How on earth is this Frankel colt still 40-1 for the 2,000 Guineas? He's a crazy price and the first leg of my Classic yankee
Our deputy Ireland editor has seen something a bit special from a juvenile this week

A few weeks after Colin Keane got the Juddmonte job, I sat down with the jockey for an interview. It was an obvious question that had an obvious answer, but the fact that the obvious answer wasn't provided made it even more intriguing.
Back then, at the start of July, Field Of Gold was all anybody could talk about. He had bolted up in the Irish 2,000 Guineas and was even more impressive at Royal Ascot in the St James's Palace Stakes, so when I asked Keane what he was most looking forward to in his new job I fully expected his reply to be the giant grey colt. It wasn't.
"The juveniles, they seem to be exciting," Keane responded. "Juddmonte have a great bunch of horses at the moment and the most exciting thing of all is that they think they have a great bunch of two-year-olds.
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