FOCUS shifts from England to Ireland this weekend with the Irish 1,000 and 2,000 Guineas across a two-day meeting at the Curragh, and there is little doubt that colt’s classic (Saturday,3.20) looks done and dusted with the Newmarket runner-up NATIVE TRAIL sure to go off a short priced favourite.

I thought that punters and pundits alike didn’t give this fine stamp of a colt the credit he deserved when he came from the wrong side of the track to run his stablemate, Coroebus, to three quarters of the length with the Godolphin pair well clear of Ballydoyle’s Luxembourg.

Although he doesn’t look like a middle distance colt, you could easily see this son of Oasis Dream going further than a mile later on in the season. But for the time being, eight furlongs at this stiff track should be right up his alley.