 Starting the 9/2 third choice in a nine-runner field he took the lead approaching the final furlong and drew away to win by three lengths from the favourite Zyz.The colt was then stepped up sharply in class for the 2000 Guineas over the Rowley Mile at Newmarket on 6 May in which he started a 25/1 outsider and came home ninth of the 27 runners behind King's Best.After a break of two months he returned in a minor race over one mile at Sandown Park on 7 July and finished fourth.