Leopardstown's Guineas trials card gets the go-ahead after morning inspection

Following an inspection this morning, the track at Leopardstown was found to be fit for racing and the Guineas trials fixture scheduled for this afternoon goes ahead.

The ground at Leopardstown remains heavy following 14mm of rain in the last 24-hours and a total of 44mm of rain this week. The weather forecast for today is for a dry day with sunny spells.

Irish Champions Weekend winner Zarinsk is among a classy field of 14 runners set to line up in the Ballylinch Stud "Priory Belle" 1,000 Guineas Trial.

Trained by Ger Lyons, the Juddmonte-owned filly bounded clear to win the Ingabelle Stakes in September, after which connections were happy to put her away for the season.

While that victory came on soft ground, the going is expected to be far more testing this weekend, the going is officially listed as heavy.

"She ended last year on a good note winning on Champions Weekend in good style and she's wintered well, Ger is happy with her and this looks a nice starting point," said Juddmonte's Barry Mahon.

"She won with cut in the ground - but there's cut and there's what we have at the minute. We've had a lot of rain recently, so you wouldn't know about heavy.

"She's a very nice filly and we've been very happy with her, and she's ready to go.

"There was no temptation to run her again after Leopardstown. That was job done - she'd won her stakes race. So we put her away, as she was a very tall filly last year, and straight after the race we were happy to say that was her season done and to give her a bit of time.

"She'd had four runs, so hopefully we've a nice filly for this year."

Aidan O'Brien runs three, with Ryan Moore on Never Ending Story, who brings Group One form to the contest, having been fourth in the Moyglare and third in the