Rainbow Bridge has been installed a generous-looking 16-10 favourite to extend his unbeaten run to three in the Highlands Stud Winter Classic at Kenilworth on Saturday. So impressive was Richard Fourie’s mount in the Winter Guineas that some observers would not have been surprised to see him odds-on for this 1 800m Grade 3.

World Sports Betting has Rocket Countdown, beaten a length and a quarter and now a kilo better, second favourite at 33-10 with fourth-placed Doublemint 11-2 to reverse the placings with 8-1 stable companion Love Happens.

Other prices are 7-1 Ancestry, 9-1 Spring Man, 15-1 Pacific Chestnut, 22-1 Morning Catch, 28-1 Man About Town, 35-1 Ben-hur.

Fourie also rides the favourite in the opening two-year-old race – the Greg Ennion-trained Rock Of Asia (3-1) – and Fresnaye who is hot favourite at 11-10 to take the Stormsvlei Mile for Joey Ramsden.

Ramsden also has the market leader in the Olympic Duel Stakes – Donovan Dillon’s mount Call To Account at 5-2 – while Greg Cheyne rides three  favourites: Brett Crawford’s pair Grand Silvano (22-10) in race two and Due Volte (3-1) 35 minutes later, and Double Black (4-1) for Candice Bass-Robinson in the last.

By Michael Clower