Followers of Aidan O'Brien's Ballydoyle string have plenty to look forward to this season as the Irish trainer outlined his plans for his stable stars at his press open day.
The trainer, who has 130 horses to race on the Flat this season including almost 70 two-year-olds, holds a strong hand for the Classics.
O'Brien nominated Sunday's Curragh winner Monashee Mountain, Giant's Causeway, Bernstein, Rossini and Mull Of Kintyre as his Guineas candidates, while his Derby possibles are Aristotle, Ciro, Bach, Shakespeare and Apollo Victoria.
One-time Sagitta 2000 Guineas favourite Bernstein will go straight to one of the versions of the mile Classic.
The colt was sent off odds-on for the National Stakes at the Curragh last September but raced too freely and could only finish fifth to Sinndar.
O'Brien said: 'He'll go straight to one of the Guineas with no prep. He has shown an awful lot of pace but we've got him relaxed.
'He's shown us all the right signs but we're not going to rev him up.'
Giant's Causeway, unbeaten in three races including the Prix de la Salamandre last season may run in the Gladness Stakes at the Curragh next month as long as the going is not too soft.
'We'll look at the Gladness Stakes at the Curragh but the ground would be a concern against older horses,' O'Brien said. 'He's a horse who likes good ground.
'It's hard to pick holes in his form and he should be OK at a mile having gone six furlongs and seven furlongs twice last year.
'He stood out last year among the two-year-old bunch, he never got a slap and Michael Kinane thinks the world of him.'
Mull Of Kintyre and Brahms could possibly go for the Kentucky Derby but plans are fluid for both colts.
Both Racing Post Trophy winner Aristotle and Ciro, who was awarded the Grand Criterium, may make their reappearance in one of the French Derby trials, while Bach has been pencilled in for the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial at Leopardstown.
Apollo Victoria, a Sadler's Wells colt who beat Sunday's impressive Curragh winner Legal Jousting on his only start at two, is among the entries for the Esso/Three Rivers Oil EBF Challenge Race at Gowran Park on Saturday.
Among the older horses O'Brien has to race this season is last year's Irish 2000 Guineas winner Saffron Walden, whose form tailed off after an unplaced effort in the Vodafone Derby.
'We probably shouldn't have gone to Epsom,' O'Brien said. 'He may have got jarred up there and may have been feeling the effects of it afterwards.
'He's going well at home and the Gladness or the Sandown Mile are possibles.'
O'Brien also nominated two of his juvenile string that had shown signs of talent, Keats, a son of first-season American sire Hennessy and Freud, a full-brother to Giant's Causeway.
'I like Keats,' O'Brien said. 'He's an active colt and could be out early.
'Freud is ready to go but we'll probably wait until the 2000 Guineas meeting at the Curragh.
'It's going to be difficult to follow up last year's bunch which were exceptional and happily stayed healthy all season,' he added.
