2,000 Guineas 2020: When is it? Where is it? What time is it? Who will win? What are the betting odds?
Find out all the latest data on the 2,000 Guineas, together with the date, time, location, where to watch the race, who is anticipated to win and the latest betting odds
Traditionally run on the first weekend in May, the two,000 Guineas is the first of the flat racing season’s 5 ‘Classic’ races for three-year-olds.
The 2020 edition of the one-mile colts’ Classic (the race is also open to fillies, however it is 60 years since one contested it) has been rescheduled and is anticipated to be contested behind closed doors. Check out our page for our favorite bookmaker new buyer offers.
When is the 2,000 Guineas?
The 2,000 Guineas is presently earmarked to happen on Saturday 6 June.
The British Horse Racing Authority’s Provisional Flat Pattern and Listed race programme: replace, issued on 13 May, laid out plans for the resumption of racing from the 1 June.
A delayed start to the campaign is anticipated to see a glut of high-class races in early June, of which the 2,000 Guineas and the 1,000 Guineas are the jewels within the crown.
What time is the 2,000 Guineas?
The exact time for the rescheduled 2,000 Guineas has yet to be confirmed, however the race has gone off at three.35pm in current years, forming the centrepiece of Saturday afternoon racing protection.
Where is the two,000 Guineas run?
The 2,000 Guineas is contested annually on Newmarket’s Rowley Mile course in Suffolk.
The course is a straight mile with well-known landmarks similar to ‘the bushes’ and ‘the dip’ that act as milestones for the horses progress towards the finish line.
Who will win the 2,000 Guineas?
The 2,000 Guineas betting odds have been long dominated by last year’s champion two-year-old.
Charlie Appleby’s Godolphin-owned colt ended his unbeaten two-year-old marketing campaign with an official rating higher even than the legendary Frankel achieved at the finish of his juvenile season.
Appleby has issued positive bulletins after latest items of work from Pinatubo at Newmarket after which Chelmsford and confirmed to the Racing Post that his star “has grown and strengthened over winter”.
Usually at this time of the yr it’s Irish grasp coach Aidan O’Brien who stables the favorite within the 2,000 Guineas betting.
His main hope for 2020, Arizona, is a distant second-favourite at the odds at the time of writing regardless of finishing just two lengths behind Pinatubo in their last meeting
What are the latest 2,000 Guineas betting odds?
Betfred 2,000 Guineas ante-post odds are appropriate at the time of publication and subject to vary.
Where can I watch the two,000 Guineas?
Last year’s 2000 Guineas, won by Aidan O’Brien’s Magna Grecia, was screened reside on ITV1 and it’s likely that the 2020 version might be too if the race goes forward behind closed doorways.
ITV 1 Racing beforehand coated the behind-closed-doors assembly at Thurles in Ireland on 21 March.