Two For Friday. G` Luck!

Starscope aims to give the form of the 1000 Guineas another boost in the Swettenham Stud Fillies' Trial Stakes at Newbury on Friday. Stablemate The Fugue finished two places behind John Gosden's Guineas runner-up at Newmarket and subsequently waltzed away with the Musidora Stakes at York on Wednesday. Starscope steps up to 10 furlongs for this Listed heat, but Chris Richardson, managing director of owners Cheveley Park Stud, feels that should be well within her compass. Richardson said: "Obviously the Guineas form was franked at York but the Guineas form is usually rock-solid anyway. It was a very pleasing run by our horse in the Guineas but our filly is a different type to The Fugue. We were very pleased with the Guineas, but we want to see if she'll stay further and then we can establish a way forward for the rest of the season. "Her jockey (Jimmy Fortune) got off her last time and said she'd have no trouble staying further - in the Nell Gwyn and the Guineas she's been doing her best work at the finish. She's a lightly-raced filly but we need to get her to concentrate in her races - she wears a hood - and we need the penny to drop. She's in the Coronation so we'll see if we'll be going back to a mile or staying at this sort of trip (10 furlongs)."

Also, Ed Dunlop is hoping Burwaaz will enjoy a welcome change of luck in the Bathwick Tyres Carnarvon Stakes at Newbury on Friday. The son of Exceed And Excel only has one success to his credit in a Leicester maiden last May, but he has run several good races in defeat. He was also tried highly as a juvenile, being placed in the Gimcrack Stakes and Flying Childers and he ended the campaign in the Group One Middle Park Stakes. His misfortune continued on his first start of 2012 when the bit slipped through his mouth at Kempton, but he still managed to take third place behind Gusto.

"I really hope he wins. The bit went through his mouth when he came round the bend and was unrideable so he did fantastically well even to finish third," said Dunlop. "I knew there were other unlucky stories in the race but I do hope this is his day to make him a stakes winner."