Jef­frey Ross

Tig­gy Wig­gy, top-rat­ed two-year-old last sea­son, is 15lbs su­pe­ri­or to twelve ri­vals in the group three Fred Dar­ling Stakes over sev­en fur­longs of 'good' ground New­bury to­day, first-up for this re­mark­able Ko­di­ac fil­ly which was six from eight in 2014 and sec­ond in the oth­er two in­clud­ing a neck de­feat in the Queen Mary dur­ing Roy­al As­cot.

When Richard Han­non's charge won the ex­treme­ly valu­able Sales race over five fur­longs of this pic­turesque Berk­shire course Tig­gy Wig­gy achieved an in­cred­i­ble time-hand­i­cap mark; a bril­liant ju­ve­nile sprint­er un­like­ly to be a clas­sic propo­si­tion was the gen­er­al opin­ion, not mine!

Next two races yield­ed facile suc­cess­es in the group two Lowther at York and then Tig­gy blitzed grade one op­po­si­tion by land­ing the New­mar­ket Cheve­ley Park!

Both were over six fur­longs, no prob­lem and so this rep­re­sents a fas­ci­nat­ing sea­son­al de­but, full of in­trigue and I'll bet cham­pi­on jock­ey Richard Hugh­es can't wait to show just what Tig­gy Wig­gy can do.

To­tal­ly un­op­pos­able with so much in hand; do you re­al­ly be­lieve "the rac­ing fam­i­ly Han­non" would waste time pur­su­ing the 1000 Guineas route un­less ab­solute­ly cer­tain that Tig­gy Wig­gy will stay a mile?

Richard will al­most cer­tain­ly jump her out and make the run­ning be­fore ac­cel­er­at­ing at the two fur­long(s) mark­er; the rest will be dealt with in Sun­day news­pa­per ar­ti­cles; fas­ci­nat­ing, fan­tas­tic and so ea­ger­ly-await­ed by all time-hand­i­cap afi­ciona­dos.

Over the same course and dis­tance much-vaunt­ed sta­ble-com­pan­ion Iva­wood al­so makes his sea­son­al de­but in the group two Green­ham Stakes and what beats him will win.

Iva­wood has al­so been la­belled a sprint­er, the sit­u­a­tion is sim­i­lar and we ex­pect this Zebedee colt to score and be­come firm favourite for the 2000 Guineas.

Kieren Fal­lon had his first win­ner over here for a long time on Thurs­day, at Chelms­ford; now 50 the six-times cham­pi­on is com­plain­ing about lack of op­por­tu­ni­ties but he'll be aboard Ex­cil­ly for Tom Das­combe's in-form yard in the Maid­en Stakes over six fur­longs at Thirsk, and she's a "spe­cial!"

You can't beat ex­pe­ri­ence!