Moonlight Cloud is owned by George Strawbridge who also owns Morning Charm and Rainbow Springs (with John Gosden). He would not run Fantasia and Rainbow View against each other in 2009, so he may well aim one at Newmarket and one at Longchamp again.

There are 79 entries for the Guineas, with no notable absentees:

All Time, Amazing Win, Banimpire, Blue Bunting, Breedj, Brevity, Cape Dollar, Chrysanthemum, Claiomh Solais, Cochabamba, Dairire, Date With Destiny, Dffra, Dubai Queen, Eirnin, Elshabakiya, Empowering, Eucharist, Exemplify, Gossamer Seed, Handassa, Havant, Helleborine, Hooray, Hurricane Havoc, I Love Me, Immortal Verse, Izzi Top, Joviality, Katla, Khawlah, Ladies Are Forever, Lady Kasora, Laughing Lashes, Look At Me, Majestic Dubawi, Make A Dance, Mambia, Manaaber, Maqaasid, Masaya, Memory, Methayel, Misty For Me, Mixed Intention, Moonlight Cloud, Morning Charm, Nahrain, Nova Hawk, Nova Step, Panoptic, Pontenuovo, Present Danger, Qushchi, Radharcnafarraige, Rainbow Springs, Riochas, Saktoon, Shim Sham, Show Rainbow, Shuhra, Sing Softly, So Stylish, Soraaya, Strictly Pink, Submission, Sunday Bess, Sunset Avenue, Sweet Cecily, Teo´s Sister, The Shrew, Theyskens´ Theory, Together, Traffic Sister, White Moonstone, Wild Wind, Wonder Of Wonders, Zaminast, Zoowraa

There has been a nibble for one of the Guineas outsiders - Barry Hills' filly Make A Dance, who won a back-end maiden at HQ by 4 lengths on her second start.  She has been backed (to small stakes) from 200 down to 100 on here.  Maybe someone has spotted that she made her debut (finishing a well beaten 9th) in the same Kempton maiden in which Ghanaati made her debut a couple of years earlier.  But there, I suspect, the comparison ends.  For one thing, she's in the same ownership as leading contender Helleborine.

I'm also puzzled by the interest in Zoowraa, a possible second string for Godolphin.  White Moonstone is their main Guineas hope and is reportedly pleasing Saeed Bin Suroor.  I know that Zoowraa is with a different trainer (Al Zarooni), but all the same, she's plenty short enough at around 20/1.

James - any concern Helleborine has not been entered for the Irish Guineas?

Good to see that Misty For Me is a possible runner in the trial at Leopardstown on Sunday, over 7f. This suggests she's pretty forward and being trained for the Guineas, rather than being kept back for an Oaks campaign; the right idea imo.

If she runs on Sunday I don't expect her to be that impressive, as APOB will be timing her to peak on May 1st. Any sort of win on Sunday would be a big positive in my book.

Freddie Head on Moonlight Cloud:

Head also had news on 1,000 Guineas hope Moonlight Cloud - as short as 16-1 for the Classic at Newmarket.

He added: "She has a ton of speed and is a little filly who is very fast. She is the ideal type for Newmarket and we will run her in a prep race in April and decided from there. The Guines is the plan."

Possible she could race Helleborine, an interesting early season clash.

If anything, i'd take the winner from the race,Empowering, even if she is more exposed and suffered no trouble in-running. She had to come wide early on to get a position and she got the 7f nicely.

History Note was a touch unlucky in-running and finished strongly, with likely improvement to come having had just two runs, but i'd be surprsied if she is a Group 1 horse tbh.

Joseph put up 1lb overweight.

Empowering has been laid off the boards on here, despite AO'B having said after the race (see sintonian's post) that she'll run at HQ. I hope nothing amiss has occurred, and the filly remains healthy even if there has been a swift rethink.

Great thread ! Just having a casual flick thro some upcoming events and realised this is 33 days away !!
Has anyone got any views on Zaminast ?This filly showed an extraordinary change of gear to win v.snugly at Galway last July - I remember being blown away at the time.
A live one imo if HQ is the intention.

Havant for me, will stay, has a tremendous finish will like quick ground and reported on course for a trial before the Guineas. This one could do the Guineas/Oaks double.

I agree with eric ^^^

I've not read a thing james but I notice she has been well supported on here (currently 8.6). I thought that was a top performance in the Oh So Sharp Stakes and you can't ask for a better man than Stoute to be preparing her. I did take the 50s Blue Sq offered on her to win that race at HQ and go on to win the 1,000 so I'm possibly slightly biased in my view

In todays RPost Stoute says Havant is ready for a run in the Nell Gwyn or Fred Darling before taking in the Guineas. Thinks she will go on fast ground.

I'm in, no filly has impressed me more than her.

Yes, I've just read the article in the Racing Post.  Sounds like Havant is definitely being prepared for the Guineas.  I like her very much, but there are one or two I like even more at this stage.

re: Zoowraa.  Here are Simon Crisford's comments about her at the recent media open morning at Al Quoz:
"She won her Listed race on soft ground at Newbury and obviously has not competed at a higher level. She has got a fair bit to prove. If the ground happened to be soft, it would be interesting. She would have the French 1,000 Guineas (Poule d’Essai des Pouliches) as an alternative and that race might suit her better than the Newmarket Classic."

Havant backed for everything this morning, 1000G, Oaks, King George & Arc

Sir Mark P is having a press day today apparently. He said to Matt Chapman earlier today she is far from certain to run at this stage, but we'll find out in due course.

Well, there do seem to be some grounds for Sir Mark's lack of optimism concerning Hooray:

Sir Mark Prescott remains unconvinced about Hooray's chances in the Qipco 1000 Guineas as he revealed a cluster of concerns.  After the filly won a succession of good races last season, culminating in a four-and-a-half-length victory in the Group One Cheveley Park Stakes, the trainer dropped heavy hints she would be unlikely to have the scope to make a serious three-year-old.  He intends to get her to the Classic at Newmarket on May 1, but is not exactly enthusing about her in his latest bulletin.

He said: "She was the best filly and on ratings was 2lb above the rest. The drawback is she just hasn't grown - she's the same size. Her family very often don't train on, and I've had quite a few of them. She hasn't particularly thrived as I have started to work her now.  The main thing for all trainers this time of year, with trying to get them ready, is whether they eat, and she is not eating as well as I'd like at the moment.  So whether she gets there or not, I don't know. But we'd like to try and whether she stays, I don't know. I've got to hope, rather as John Gosden once said, that the Guineas is the last two-year-old race of the year and I was the best two-year-old, so that's the hope.  She wasn't a good eater early on but she thrived later in the summer and I suspect that's the nature of the beast, rather like daffodils coming at the same time of year. I suspect her time is probably later in the year."

He went on: "What we decided was she had to start work today or she couldn't run in the Guineas. So we worked her this morning and she was fine. She wasn't very fast, obviously, in her first work, and I'll see how she goes this week.  If she thrives we'll keep going and if she doesn't thrive, we'll have to stop and wait for something better. What I'm not going to do is what has been forced on many trainers over the years - pushing one - and then you wind up with no horse at all.  We can think about a mile at Ascot in June when she's come to hand perhaps, I don't know. She'd need to do better than she's done the last couple of weeks for me to run."

blimey you wouldn't want to back her in a southwell seller going by what SMP has to say.Her pedigree does shout two year old but he seems very downbeat