Stan Moore is optimistic that his talented filly Queues Likely, who competes in the German 1000 Guineas on Sunday, can contend for the top prize.
Since making her debut a year ago, the three-year-old has advanced quickly, and her journey will end in the Group Two one-mile competition in Dusseldorf.
She began her winning run of four races on the all-weather course at Chelmsford in November and advanced to the Class Four level at Wolverhampton three days before Christmas.
After her triumph in March, Queues Likely returned to Dunstall Park to win over course and distance, setting her up for European Pattern racing this summer.
For her first Group Three race, the Karin Baronin von Ullmann – Schwarzgold-Rennen, she travelled to Cologne in April, where she competed under the tutelage of former champion apprentice Billy Loughnane.
Loughnane, who won the one-and-a-quarter-length race to score his Group-race success, will return for the most difficult assignment of his mount's brief career, but Moore is certain she can continue where she left off.
“I know she wore blinkers, but she’s not ungenuine in any way, she’s just pretty laid-back,” Moore said. “She won nice enough on the last day (in Cologne), she’s in great form. I think she deserves to take her chance at it. That was our plan from Christmas, that race she won I thought she had to be in the first three to take to the Guineas and she won it. So we are sticking to the plan, hopefully, everything goes well between now and then. And as long as it does, she’ll give them a run for their money anyway. There might be a couple of other German fillies that I don’t know. She’s proved that she’s worth taking her over for it and giving her a chance.”