Al Wukair is likely to have his next race in the Prix du Jockey Club at Chantilly on June 4.

Al Wukair will carry the hopes of France in Saturday’s Group 1 £500,000 QIPCO 2000 Guineas at Newmarket’s Rowley Mile Racecourse – a race that is shaping up to be a Classic cracker.

The QIPCO 2000 Guineas is shaping up to be a vintage renewal this season, with leading contenders from Ireland, France and Britain plus two representatives of the first crop of the unbeaten wonder horse, Frankel, set to do battle in the first leg of the 2017 QIPCO British Champions Series at Newmarket’s Rowley Mile Racecourse on Saturday, 6th May.

French training maestro Andre Fabre has started the new season in unstoppable form and is set to launch a formidable raid on the QIPCO Guineas Festival at Newmarket‘s Rowley Mile Racecourse on the first weekend in May.