1000 Guineas: Cecil expects mile to suit Snap

Hot Snap returns to Newmarket on Sunday

Sir Henry Cecil expects the step back up to a mile will be in Hot Snap's favour when she seeks to give the Warren Place trainer a seventh success in the 1000 Guineas at Newmarket on Sunday...

The daughter of Pivotal leapt to the head of the betting for the first fillies' Classic when winning the Nell Gwyn Stakes over seven furlongs in tremendous style at HQ on her reappearance. Her only previous start had come over a mile as a two-year-old when she won a maiden at Kempton in September.

"The mile will suit her better and hopefully the experience of the Nell Gwyn will have brought her on," the trainer told www.sirhenrycecil.com.

"She is coming in her coat but will always be a very tall filly with plenty of bone (and) not over-robust. I think she will get a mile and a quarter. The Oaks trip (of a mile and a half) is a slight question-mark at the moment.

"We may consider the Musidora Stakes at York (May 15) but we will wait and see. The Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot could be the other alternative but she will tell us which way to go."

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