Mojito to score easy win

MOJITO winning the 2000 Guineas by 12 lengths, hardly breaking a sweat in clocking 1:37.2 for a mile, immediately brings to mind the days of 2017 Triple Crown winner SHE'S A MANEATER.

The grey colt will go down in history as one of the easiest Triple Crown winners ever, considering how he cantered over rivals in the Kingston Trial Stakes and 2000 Guineas, notching five wins in a row, unbeaten since his third outing last November.

After coasting in by a dozen lengths in the Kingston, punters were left wondering, "what next?". MOJITO hit rivals with splits of 46.3, 58.2, 1:10.3 and 1:23.0, slowly into stride, winning the Guineas under a hand ride, sending his stocks soaring way past Saturday's St Leger and Jamaica Derby, sending shivers down every trainer with a horse prepping for the Mouttet Mile in December.

It is frightening to note that since clocking 1:41.1 in December's Jamaica Two-Year-Old Stakes, MOJITO clipped 3.4 seconds off that time in a little over five months, firing a telling warning shot at older, grade-one runners six months ahead of the Mouttet Mile.

HUNTSMAN has worked well as usual and could chase home MOJITO, the only horse to have beaten him in three outings. He galloped a mile in 1:43.1 in early June, prepping for his 13-length romp against non-winners of two races on June 18, clocking 1:58.2 at nine furlongs and 25 yards.

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Last year's Jamaica Derby winner, ATOMICA, who returned to winning ways in an overnight-allowance race on Labour Day, eased down for a nine-length victory against PERFECT BREW, should easily land the Clovis Metcalfe at seven and a half furlongs.

EXCESSIVE FORCE, last year's Mouttet Mile winner, makes his seasonal debut after being scratched lame two Saturdays ago. However, having only raced once since his charging run in the Mouttet Mile, a third-place finish behind MAHOGANY in the December 31 Ian Levy Cup, EXCESSIVE FORCE is in no shape to challenge ATOMICA.