Aidan O'Brien can land another British Classic by winning the Sagitta 1000 Guineas at Newmarket tomorrow with Sunspangled.

The record-breaking Irish training phenomenon has already won the 2000 Guineas and the Oaks in his short career.

And he looks to have every chance of adding success in this one-mile event, which has been severely weakened by high-profile defections.

Most of the winter favourites for the race have fallen by the wayside, with Bionic and Etizaaz sidelined and European champion juvenile Bint Allayl tragically killed.

That leaves French filly Moiava and Sunspangled as the only proven top-notchers in the line-up.

Last year's Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte winner Moiava has herself had an interrupted preparation, which forced her to miss her intended reappearance.

So preference is for Sunspangled, who O'Brien always intended to bring straight to Newmarket without a prep race.

She created a highly favourable impression on her last visit to Britain in the Group One Meon Valley Stud Fillies' Mile at Ascot last September, battling on tremendously well to see off Calando and Edabiya in a tight finish.

The 75,000-guineas purchase is bred to do even better in her second season - dam Filia Ardross stepped up on smart juvenile form to win the German 1000 Guineas and Oaks as a three-year-old in 1989.

Sunspangled can gain her own more high-profile Classic success on Sunday.

Those looking for a longer-priced alternative in a race lacking strength in depth could do far worse than side with Mick Channon's Golden Silca.

She showed progressive, Pattern race-winning form last year and shaped as though she will benefit from this step up to a mile when a running-on second over seven furlongs on her reappearance at Newbury.

Kilting can stake her Oaks claims in the preceding R L Davison Pretty Polly Stakes.

She looked potentially high class when running away with a maiden at Doncaster on her only start last year.

A winter spent with Godolphin in Dubai is most unlikely to have hindered her progress.

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