Punters keep coming for Santa Barbara - do they not know their Guineas history?
Santa Barbara may well prove herself to be the next superstar filly to emerge from Ballydoyle this season, but history strongly suggests that the well-backed ante-post favourite for Sunday's Qipco 1,000 Guineas will be found out by a lack of experience.
The money continues to pour in for Santa Barbara, now generally just 6-4 for the first fillies' Classic, yet the once-raced September Curragh maiden winner's profile, so very different to Aidan O’Brien's other six winners of the race, spells trouble.
Half of O'Brien's previous 1,000 Guineas heroines had a prep run in the season of their Classic triumph and had raced an average of seven times beforehand. Santa Barbara, however, has been absent from any possible trial races this term.
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